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Mar 30, 2020 · In 1958, Richard Loving, a White man, and his wife Mildred, a Black woman, were arrested for the crime of being married. Although the couple had been legally wed in the District of Columbia,...
- David Ludden Ph.D.
- Black Women Don’T Marry
- Educated Black Women Have It Harder
- Rich Black Men Marry Out
- Black Men Don’T Earn as Much as Black Women
The barrage of news reports about the Black marriage rate gives the impression that Black women’s chances of walking down the aisle are bleak. A Yale University study found that just 42% of Black women are married, and a variety of high profile news networks such as CNN and ABC picked up that figure and ran with it. But researchers Ivory A. Toldson...
Getting a college degree is the worst thing a Black woman can do if she wants to get married, right? Not exactly. News stories about Black marriage often mention that more Black women pursue higher education than Black men—by a 2-to-1 ratio, according to some estimates. What these articles leave out is that white women also earn college degrees mor...
Black men drop Black women as soon as they reach a certain level of success, don’t they? While plenty of rap stars, athletes and musicians may choose to date or marry interraciallywhen they achieve fame, the same is not true for the bulk of successful Black men. By analyzing census data, Toldson and Marks found that 83% of married Black men who ear...
Just because Black women are more likely to graduate from college than their male counterparts doesn’t mean that they out-earn Black men. Actually, Black men are more likely than Black women to bring home at least $75,000 annually. Also, double the number of Black men than women make at least $250,000 annually. Because of pervasive gender gaps in i...
- Nadra Kareem Nittle
Jul 30, 2017 · Richard Loving, a man of European descent, had fallen in love with Mildred Jeter, a woman of African and Native American origins. They wanted to marry, but Virginia's anti-miscegenation laws...
- David Ludden Ph.D.
Mar 30, 2020 · In 1958, Richard Loving, a White man, and his wife Mildred, a Black woman, were arrested for the crime of being married. Although the couple had been legally wed in the District of Columbia,...
- David Ludden Ph.D.
Feb 14, 2024 · In 2021, Black men were incarcerated at over five times the rate of their white counterparts. Across race, women are earning college degrees at a higher rate than men, making it difficult...
- Jonquilyn Hill
Oct 14, 2011 · When it comes to married black Americans, 8.1 percent of men had a white spouse in 2010 — up from 5 percent in 2001. And just 2.4 percent of black women were married to white men in...
Only 5.5% of black males married white females in 1990, and the family-. income premium for intermarried black males was 7%. This article estimates the impact of the mating taboo, courting opportunities, and individual endowments on the black male marriage market.