Your Voice Matters: Injustices Being Unsilenced from an Educators Perspective

The Decline of Black Marriage did not just Start! As a Black millennial, I have been able to see how the Black family unit seems to be declining more and more, and it almost seems like it may never get back to where it was in the 1950's. Now, I could go back before the 1950's, but for this blog, I would like to focus on the 1950's until our current date today in 2024. According to the article African American Marriage Patterns, it states that in the 1950's there were 67% of White women married, and 64% of Black women married. This shows that marriages between Black and White women were almost the same, but the rates of Black women being married started to drop drastically compared to their White counterparts starting in the 60's. Today, every 2/3 Black women will never become married, and the rates surprisingly are not much better for Black men when it comes to marriage as well. Black men are slightly marrying more than Black women, but the issue is that not every

If you live in America, than you have probably heard about the "American Dream". You know: the white picket fence, two kids, and a piece of property which you can call yours. If you have been blessed enough to reach adulthood in America, then you also know that this "American Dream" that we are taught about at such a young age, does not really exist. Am I saying that no one can never acquire these things? Of course not, but it is very difficult to get these things when there is inflation, jobs not paying more to make up for the inflation, and having a bill that can equate to more than your future home like student loan debt. On top of all of those real life scenarios that I just gave, if you are Black or Hispanic, the "American Dream" just became a bit more difficult due to discrimination, redlining, lack of education, resources, and access to generational wealth. Most African Americans and Hispanics are literally starting from ground zero, and working the