This municipal action guide highlights potential strategies and promising city approaches for reducing the persistent disparities between black males and their peers in the areas of education, work, and family.
- City leaders can play a role in the growing national movement to improve outcomes for black males with targeted strategies.
- Steps to reduce inequities will have the greatest impact when pursued as part of a data-driven strategy defined by measurable goals, a clear target population, and mechanisms to share accountability among stakeholders from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
Published by
- National League of Cities' Institute for Youth, Education and Families