Ronald b. mincy

There's something very different happening with young black men, and it's something we can no longer ignore.

We spent $50 billion in efforts that produced the turnaround for poor women. We are not even beginning to think about the men's problem on similar orders of magnitude.

[He had retired from the Senate, one of the best-liked and respected men in the country, and was practicing law and preparing to run for the Republican nomination for president in 1988. A call came asking him to come to the White House. He was walking toward the Oval Office when he saw the president, Ronald Reagan , standing alone in the darkened hallway.] Howard, ... I need you ...

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.