“Perhaps the starkest description of the situation is this: More than one out of every six black men who today should be between 25 and 54 years old have disappeared from daily life…Remarkably, black women who are 25 to 54 and not in jail outnumber black men in that category by 1.5 million.”
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/21/1379162/-The-Unspoken-American-Experience-1-500-000-Missing-Black-Men