{"id":68701,"date":"2025-07-17T02:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T02:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/68701\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T02:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T02:05:10","slug":"new-book-explores-the-true-meaning-of-black-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/68701\/","title":{"rendered":"New book explores the true meaning of &#8216;Black Power&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack Power\u201d is widely known as a political slogan \u2014 a rallying cry to mobilize Black Americans to attain social, political and economic power and fuel a sense of self-determination.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A lot of progress has been made since the Civil Rights Movement in the \u201960s and \u201970s, but Black Americans today still face major systemic obstacles. Black people are<a href=\"https:\/\/endhomelessness.org\/blog\/homelessness-and-black-history-poverty-and-income\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> more likely to live in poverty<\/a> and they have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/racial-wealth-gap-costs-economy-1-5-trillion-dollars-report-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one-tenth the wealth of white Americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those factors are important indicators. But could directing attention to the gains Black people have made and replicating those circumstances offer better outcomes than comparing overall wealth?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/people\/andre-m-perry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andre Perry<\/a> is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute and the author of the new book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9781250869715\/blackpowerscorecard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close it.<\/a>\u201d In the book, he suggests that a reframing of this problem might help us rethink how we assess its solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Perry joined The Metro on Wednesday for a deep dive into the mentality behind this book.<\/p>\n<p>Use the media player above to hear the full conversation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to\u00a0The Metro\u00a0weekdays from 10 a.m. to noon ET on 101.9 FM and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wdet.org\/shows\/the-metro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">streaming\u00a0on-demand<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBlack Power\u201d is widely known as a political slogan \u2014 a rallying cry to mobilize Black Americans to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[18547,28196,1022,718,171,48610,48611,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-68701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-african-americans","9":"tag-black-history","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-community","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-racial-gap","14":"tag-systemic-racism","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114866128461762981","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}