Myth: "There are more black men in jail than in college."

Good to rebut this myth:

"There are more black men in jail than in college."

Ivory A. Toldson — Howard University professor, senior research analyst for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, and deputy director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs — called this, in a 2013 column for the Root, "the most frequently quoted statistic about black men in the United States."

It's also dead wrong.

 

The myth that there are more black men in prison than in college, debunked in one chart

Updated by Jenée Desmond-Harris on February 12, 2015, 10:10 a.m. ET @jdesmondharrisjenee.desmondharris@voxmedia.com

www.vox.com/2015/2/12/8020959/black-men-prison-college