IT’S TIME TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT BOYS AND YOUNG MEN OF COLOR - MINORITIES NOW CONSTITUTE A MAJORITY
The Boys Initiative’s Minority Male Youth 2050 project aimed at addressing issueWashington, DC – May 17, 2012 – Today the Census Bureau released a set of estimates showing that for the first time 50.4 percent of our nation's population younger than age 1 were minorities as of July 1, 2011. This is up from 49.5 percent from the 2010 Census taken April 1, 2010. A minority is anyone who is not single-race non-Hispanic white. At the same time, achievement is declining among minority males. Today among males, only 28%