NAACP Sees Education as Key to Boosting Black Men

NAACP Sees Education as Key to Boosting Black Men: Education is the key to breaking Black men and youths out of a vicious cycle of crime and unemployment, African-American leaders said Thursday at the close of the annual NAACP convention.

The plight of Black males, who have above average rates of joblessness, incarceration, HIV infection and lower rates of educational achievement, was one of the themes of the six-day convention, which was attended by more than 5,000 members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

“We are losing a generation of our children,” said Sandre Swanson, who heads the California Assembly's Select Committee on the State of Boys and Men of Color, at a panel discussion. “These young men need help and to know we care.”