Dr. Wilmer Leon: Professor Randall Kennedy and the Dangerous Politics of Sentiment

Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III

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Rev. Jesse Jackson to Your Black World: “We Must Support President Obama’s Proposal”

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Your Black World

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Dr. Boyce: Soulja Boy Has Become the New Flava Flav

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NCAA Athletes Start a New Season with No Labor Rights, No Compensation and No Help for Their Families

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Syracuse University – Scholarship in Action 

NCAA athletics has become the new prohibition – the illogical construct that creates a destructive underground economy because leadership is being guided by an illusion of what should be, rather than confronting the NCAA for what it really is: a professional sports league. Some of our most highly educated figures within academia are forced to convince themselves that a multi-billion dollar sports entertainment behemoth should be able to get away with not paying its primary employees.

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Can a Woman Raise a Boy to be a Man without Male Intervention? Most Men Don’t Think So

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Dr. Boyce: Ben Jealous, Marc Morial and Barack Obama Have a Meeting: What Does This Mean?

 

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Study Finds that Black Men Live Longer in Prison than Out of It

 

by Dr. Boyce Watkins.

Many of us have seen the dismal statistics for black males in America.  African American men are at the bottom of the barrel in nearly every category of life, including healthcare, education, incarceration, and unemployment.  Many of us raise our black boys with little to no understanding of how many of these statistics are perpetuated by a series of systems that serve to enhance and promote a lifestyle that leads to an early death.   That is one reason why we’ve expressed concern for hip-hop music, fueled by corporate America, that promotes a self-destructive lifestyle that many young men emulate.

It turns out that the facts might be worse than many could have speculated.  According to a recent study, black men are half as likely to die in prison than if they are free.   The authors of the study claim that easier access to healthcare, protection from drugs and alcohol and the ability to avoid deadly black-on-black violence leads to a longer life span for those who are incarcerated.  African American males are the only group for which these facts hold true, according to the authors of the study.

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