In Age Of Black Lives Matter, 3 Young Black Men Share Their Fears — And Hopes [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 8/7/1512:00 PM

The name "Brownsville" doesn't necessarily vibrate the way neighborhoods and cities like Compton, Englewood and Camden do, places that stay in national headlines thanks to the extreme risks their mostly black and poor residents have to deal with every day.

But this area in central Brooklyn — just over a mile square, and home to about 58,000 people — is struggling. The median household incomewithin Brownsville's community district is less than $27,000 per year, the lowest in New York City. In one census tract in this district, that number plummets to just over $11,000 per year.

[For more of this story, written by Mito Habe-Evans and Anastacia Tsioulcas, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/co...-their-fears-and-hop]

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