{"id":26766,"date":"2014-02-15T14:14:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T19:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=26766"},"modified":"2014-02-15T15:56:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T20:56:03","slug":"book-black-stats-african-americans-numbers-20th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=26766","title":{"rendered":"Book: Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the 20th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-15-at-1.48.47-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-26767\" alt=\"black stats via harlemcondolife\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-15-at-1.48.47-PM.jpg\" width=\"372\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-15-at-1.48.47-PM.jpg 531w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-15-at-1.48.47-PM-247x300.jpg 247w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Screen-Shot-2014-02-15-at-1.48.47-PM-82x100.jpg 82w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently had an opportunity to listen to and then meet Monique W. Morris and Khalil Gibran Muhammad discussing Monique&#8217;s new book: Black Stats.<\/p>\n<p>This book is a vast compendium of revealing facts about blacks in the 20th Century. \u00a0It is the first ever work of it&#8217;s kind.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what was the most surprising fact she came across, \u00a0Ms. Morris mentioned a timely stat regarding views on gay marriage. \u00a0She also shared a stat regarding incarceration rates that people might find surprising. \u00a0 Mr. Muhammad provided a fascinating perspective on how facts can be used to illuminate or \u00a0perpetuate bias.<\/p>\n<p><b>Monique W. Morris<\/b>\u00a0is co-founder of the National Black Women\u2019s Justice Institute. She is a Soros Justice Fellow and formerly served as Vice President for Economic Programs, Advocacy, and Research for the NAACP. A faculty member at St. Mary\u2019s College of California, she is the author of the novel\u00a0<i>Too Beautiful for Words<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Khalil Gibran Muhammad<\/b>\u00a0is the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library and the author of\u00a0<i>The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444; line-height: 1.7;\">This and other books, music, etc can be found on HarlemCondoLife&#8217;s recently upgrade store, located <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.7;\" href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/the-harlemcondolife-store\/#.Uv-4jEJdV8s\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444; line-height: 1.7;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had an opportunity to listen to and then meet Monique W. Morris and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":26767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62617969,678],"tags":[124716501,124716502,124716509,124716497,124716508,124716500,124716496,124716495,124716498,124716506,124716505,124716499,124716503,124716507,124716504],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26766"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26780,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26766\/revisions\/26780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}