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The Black Family, 60 Years Later: What Moynihan Saw, and What We Refused to Fix
In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat and top official in Lyndon B. Johnson’s Department of Labor, authored a report that ignited a national debate. The Negro Family: The Case for National Action warned that the disintegration of the Black nuclear family—particularly the absence of fathers—posed a significant threat to the progress of Black America. At the […]
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