Are Poor Black Americans Screwed?

Straight Up: African Americans' concerns about a third of the community shouldn't be ignored. by Lawrence D. Bobo, The Root (The Root) -- Everywhere I go I hear middle-class African Americans voice what I now call "the worry." One successful woman said to me, "We're screwed, aren't we?" A public intellectual commented to me, "I fear that a third of our people are toast!" A concerned black mi...

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