How Newark can mend: First, forget about immigration status

by urbano411 | August 17, 2007 at 06:57 am
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Ryan Haygood takes an introspective view of the Newark killings and the need for change and healing in the community.

The study, released by the department's Bureau of Statistics last week, showed that although blacks comprise only 13 percent of the U.S. population, they represented nearly half othe nation's murder victims in 2005. The study's most startling finding, though, was that most of the black murder victims - an astonishing 93 percent - were killed by other black people.

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