Data: 'Stealth depression' joblessness in Milwaukee.
As we approach Labor Day 2003, the economic boom of the 1990s has already become a distant memory for Milwaukee's labor market. Through most of the 1990s, the unemployment rate for city residents ran below or close to the national...
Data: Racial Privacy Initiative, August 2003.
Voter support for a ballot initiative that would ban state government from collecting racial and ethnic data remains strong but has slipped, according to a Field Poll released today. The survey found that 46 percent of likely voters favor Proposition...
Data: Still under correctional supervision.
At the end of 2001, about 16.6 percent of adult black males were current or former inmates, compared to 7.7 percent of Hispanic males and 2.6 percent of white males. Among black males 35 to 44 years of age, 22...
Weblogs: The ghetto is not quite America.
I have written that one of the fundamental reasons that African Americans are so passionate about their culture and politics is because we have been forced to forge brotherhood with each other. We didn't ask to be herded into neighborhoods...
Weblogs: We are all one.
As we look forward to the 40th anniversary of the March on Washington, it's worth noting that one of the March's key organizers was a black gay man, Bayard Rustin. Rustin was relatively open about his sexuality, and recently-deceased Sen....
Weblogs: Make me recall my days.
How did a girl who grew up in a ghetto neighborhood, manage to have a streak of bougie in her? I don't know. One of the mysteries of life. Does part of me subscribe to that notion that "you can...
Weblogs: He's available for parties.
Los Angeles is a big place with lots of people. Most of those people are some shade of brown. I'm just wondering why all your events feature me in a sea of fake bake rather than the melting pot/salad bowl...
Weblogs: The OG DL article.
Gay is not synonymous with HIV/AIDS, just as black male is not synonymous with criminal. But when one examines the recent spat of media attention paid to this phenomenon called DL (down low) culture, and the public’s reaction to it,...
Weblogs: Get at me, Cobb.
Currently, there ain't no sunshine in the Gulf states. It's dark and hot as hell, and there is a great depression across the South. | Online weatherman Michael Bowen gives his readers the five-day forecast, advising all within browser's reach...
Weblogs: Aisles and chasms.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said long ago that 11:00 on Sunday morning is "the most segregated hour in America". I've seen precious little change in that reality in recent years, which leads me to believe that (1) people are...
Data: Downloaders and file sharers.
The Pew Internet and American Life Trust's latest poll on downloaders and file-sharers does the math: "Though the size of the downloading population has grown in two years, its basic demographic composition has not changed much. Male Internet users are...
Data: Women of color at work.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission outlines statistical improvements among African American, Asian American, Latina and American Indian women within the American workforce over the last 11 years. The EEOC says a new study's data "were drawn from two sources:...
Weblogs: I don't know who he is, but I think that you do.
George C. Wolfe, the black director of the New York Public Theater once said, "Anytime anyone comes up with a definition of who you are, it has absolutely nothing to do with who you are. It has to do with...
Data: Racial Privacy Initiative, July 2003.
The initiative, dubbed Proposition 54, is a proposed state constitutional amendment that would prohibit most public agencies from collecting information about individuals' race, ethnicity or national origin. It seems benign on the surface, opponents say, and therefore the less time...
Data: Ethnic clustering in blogging communities.
Sébastien Paquet's post at Corante (noticed via Anil Dash's Daily Links) observes that "[a] LiveJournal user picked at random is overwhelmingly likely to be white, while a random Xangan is much more likely to be Asian or Asian-American." | Read...
Data: Race gap in drug coverage.
African-American Medicare beneficiaries age 65 and older are more than twice as likely as elderly white beneficiaries to report they could not afford to fill at least one prescription in the last year, according to a new study by the...
Data: Africa population prospects.
Carl Haub, author of the Population Research Bureau's newly released World Population Data Sheet, estimates that "Middle Africa is expected to be the fastest-growing region in the first half of the 21st century, growing to 193 percent of its current...
Data: Speed trap.
"This analysis is important, because it documents a new dimension to the complex issue of racial disparities in traffic stops," said Northeastern University criminologist Jack McDevitt, who is studying the same citations for the state. "People have looked at the...
Data: Jackson and Powell top list of most important Black leaders.
Frank Newport of the Gallup News Service says a Gallup Poll last month asked Americans to name "the most important national leader in the black community today." Of a 241-black sample, 18% named Colin Powell and 17% named Jesse Jackson....
Data: Marriage and children: Coming together again?
David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead of The National Marriage Project at Rutgers University note: "Most prominent in the public discussion have been recent trends in the African American community, where evidence for a family turnaround has been the strongest....
