Chaneel's Xtra Hr_Black In America

The Rand Family Reunion located in Houston, Texas

• stories of success and struggles

• Rubystein finds family roots

• The Black Rands & White Rands meet for the first time

70% of high school students graduate in 4 years

• only 50% for the blacks graduate

• 1 student every 26 seconds drops out

• a black kid in America scores below any other race in the world on standardized test

low class families

• Sandra Adella"In my neighborhood I can buy a gun quicker than I can buy a tomato"

• Blacks die about 5 years earlier than whites

single parent families

• Marry My Baby Daddy is an organization set up to wed unwed parents

• 40 baby daddies have been married through this organization

• 54% of black kids grow up in poverty

• 38% of white kids grow up like this also

Bi-Racial Relationships
problems: being mixed, not fitting in, being teased, confused(not knowing what to call yourself)