I've got a Tapped post you should read on recent research around the socioeconomic conditions of black men. In short, the news is bad, not just in absolute terms, but in trends. Their condition no longer seems responsive to positive changes in the economy, which suggests that they're becoming more insulated from the wider economic picture, and thus much harder to reach positively. Since what happens to them ripples out into society by way of fatherless children, crime rates, lost talent, smaller potential markets, and so forth, this is the sort of thing people should be concerned about.
