- Boys and men of color face unique and systemic challenges that negatively affect their own lives, as well as those of their families and communities. These challenges require immediate action through policy changes and innovative programming.
- When you consider mass incarceration, employment disparities, and the achievement gap, racism in the lives of Black males bears resemblance to trauma given its injurious effect to their socio-economic prospects and the powerlessness it can evoke.
- Structural community conditions contribute to the oppression experienced by communities of color. Community loss creates an environment that compounds stress and results in barriers to economic and health parity with better resourced neighborhoods.
Published by
- McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, New York University Silver School of Social Work