I just want to give a plug to The Washington Post‘s spectacular series on being a Black man. The current installment, about an 9-year old Black boy growing up in a wealthy suburb, is wonderful, and I’ve enjoyed every article in the series that I’ve read. This one is particuarly important since, as Prometheus notes, it illustrates that Black people of all economic classes face racial issues. To wit:
[B]lack children — especially boys, no matter their family income — receive less attention, harsher punishment and lower marks in school than their white counterparts, from kindergarten through college. The Yale University Child Study Center, for instance, found in a national survey last year that black boys are expelled at three times the rate of white children — in pre-kindergarten.
This (not that passage, but the series generally) is Pulitzer-deserving writing.