'Young African-American men are dying and being incarcerated at higher rates than African-American women and white men and women. One and a half million black men are missing from everyday life, according to a
recent New York Times report. More than 70,000 black men are missing in North Carolina. Their disappearance from society is the product of many structural and policy issues.
WUNC-FM | The State of Things'
host
Frank Stasio talks with
Mark Anthony Neal
, professor of African and African-American studies at Duke University;
Wizdom Powell
, UNC School of Health professor; and
Dwayne Betts
, a poet, author and formerly incarcerated man who is now a Yale Law student.
Listen
HERE
Published on May 14, 2015 19:36