Post Gazette: Sunday, July 1, 2007

Sunday Forum:

Pittsburgh's shame

African Americans here have fallen behind even our most recent immigrants, and it's long past time to do something about it, say social scientists LARRY E. DAVIS and RALPH BANGS

Larry E. Davis is the dean of the School of Social Work and founding director of the Center on Race and Social Problems at the University of Pittsburgh (ledavis@pitt.edu). Ralph Bangs is the associate director of the Center on Race and Social Problems (rbangs@pitt.edu). The center's report, "Pittsburgh's Racial Demographics: Differences and Disparities," can be found at www.crsp.pitt.edu.

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