April 27, 2015
An analysis in The New York Times — “1.5 Million Missing Black Men” — showed that more than one in every six black men in the 24-to-54 age group has disappeared from civic life, mainly because they died young or are locked away in prison. See Forcing Black Men Out of Society (New York Times, Sunday Review, April 25, 2015) Photo by: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.