Black Men for Black Women?

Debaters

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  A Shortage of Eligible Black Men

  Ralph Richard Banks, Stanford law professor

  Marriage has declined throughout our society, but more so for African-Americans, and in particular black women.

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  A Shortage: Maybe, Maybe Not

  Angela Stanley, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Ohio State University

  If a black woman happens to be single, it is not necessarily a commentary on black men as eligible partners.

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  Education and Income, Not Race

  Ivory A. Toldson, associate professor of psychology, Howard University

  If black people dealt with the facts, instead of the news media's 'battle of the black sexes,' they'd find healthy love in one another.

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  Blacks Need to Reinvent Marriage

  Dalton Conley, sociologist

  The dearth of 'marriageable' black men assumes that marital roles are inflexible, and that blacks only marry blacks.