What to do about missing black men.

• Author: Johnson, Raina J.
• Position: The Progressive Media Project - Brief article

Black men are missing from daily life. We ought to treat this problem as a public health crisis. Because it is, truly, an epidemic.

As a single black woman living in Milwaukee, I feel and see this void of black men every day.

Because of early deaths or because they are behind bars, there are eighty-three black men for every 100 black women between the ages of twenty-five and fifty-four living outside of jail.

Some weeks ago, there was a tragic series of events in Milwaukee that claimed the lives of two black men and two black boys. It made my heart sink. Four.

Milwaukee, with approximately 240,000 black residents, is "missing" 14,000...