Black Women Are Far More Likely Than Black Men to Complete College
For every 3 black men in college, 4 are in prison.
"Instead of education being the foundation for economic stability, success in the music and entertainment businesses and the sale of illegal drugs has enabled some young Black men without high school diplomas to have nice homes and nice cars. We have to market education as something that builds the self -that builds the inner person, that builds you as a human being -and get away from the material aspect of it because they can replace that easily with hip hop music and crack cocaine." ~Malik Salaam, featured on the HBO series "Def Poetry".
For more insight on this topic, check out "Food for the Soul" available at www.authorhouse.com; www.amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.
Feel free to leave your insights as to why this dynamic exists as well...
"Instead of education being the foundation for economic stability, success in the music and entertainment businesses and the sale of illegal drugs has enabled some young Black men without high school diplomas to have nice homes and nice cars. We have to market education as something that builds the self -that builds the inner person, that builds you as a human being -and get away from the material aspect of it because they can replace that easily with hip hop music and crack cocaine." ~Malik Salaam, featured on the HBO series "Def Poetry".
For more insight on this topic, check out "Food for the Soul" available at www.authorhouse.com; www.amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.
Feel free to leave your insights as to why this dynamic exists as well...
