The Real Reason the Black Family Fell Apart

By The Free Press | Created at 2026-09-28 09:06:55 | Updated at 2026-09-28 09:45:21 43 minutes ago

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The Real Reason the Black Family Fell Apart

The black family is in crisis. Author Delano Squires is trying to tell us why.

Delano Squires used to sit in on morning calls with the assistant police chief while working in D.C.’s office of gun violence prevention. He told me it was always the same story: a young black man—sometimes the victim, sometimes the perpetrator—but always the focus. What struck him, looking back, was that when the city later rolled out its plan to addre…

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