PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW…Black men killing black men is a problem of astounding magnitude. Statistics the Tribune-Review examined from the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office show about 8 in 10 murders since 2006 involved black victims, and black men were victims in 7 of every 10 slayings. The victims’ average age: 25.
Experts including academics, police brass and street advocates blame social problems that began festering three decades ago. They cite the breakdown of black families, crumbling moral values and crack cocaine’s infiltration into urban life…
A study by the Tuskegee Institute shows the Ku Klux Klan killed 3,446 black people in America over 86 years; black men in America kill about the same number of blacks — mostly men — every six months, said Phillip Jackson, founder of The Black Star Project in Chicago… (more)
