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January 25, 2007
Who really cares about black teens?
The Plain Dealer, January 25, 2007 (column)
Study after study, the evidence is clear: Black youths are overrepresented in every stage of the juvenile justice system. In fact, as more and more black children are taken from their homes and locked up in kiddie prisons, the problem grows worse—not better. The public becomes increasingly frightened by highly publicized and politicized images of black kids—especially black boys. The statistics bear evidence to support this misdirected view. For example, a 2002 study by the Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change at Case Western Reserve University found that black youths in Cuyahoga County are more than twice as likely to be charged with a felony drug offense than are white youths (70 percent versus 32 percent). Read article.
November 14, 2006
Income gap between races persists, census says
The Plain Dealer, November 14, 2006
Washington—Decades after the civil rights movement, racial disparities in income, education and home ownership persist and, by some measurements, are growing. And for Northeast Ohio, those gaps are even more pronounced than the national figures. The report showed two bright spots. Compared with the national averages, Hispanics in Northeast Ohio were more likely to own a home and earn a bachelor's or graduate degree. The area's high rate of racial segregation likely plays a key role in economic and educational disparities, said Claudia Coulton, codirector of the Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change at Case Western Reserve University. "When there's more segregation, it usually cuts down on opportunities," she said. Read article.