Each week TIME brings readers stories and pictures of major news events, but our editors also strive to present the quieter, more slowly developing trends and realities that affect our world. The plight of young black men in America is one such undercurrent, and in this issue we explore the subject at greater than usual length.
Some of these youths have already fathered a new generation of dependent, disadvantaged children. Most reporting on ghettos and the poverty cycle, noted Chicago Bureau Chief Jack White, has concentrated on teenage mothers and the children they were raising, to the exclusion of the men...
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