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Are there more black men in college or prison in the US?

At a university lecture only last week Ivory Toldson heard the speaker say there are more black men in prison in America than in college

At a university lecture only last week Ivory Toldson heard the speaker say there are more black men in prison in America than in college. ‘Here we go again’ he thought. Only the week before he had written his second article on why this statistic is not true, yet it was still being repeated. This week Ruth Alexander looks at where this ‘fact’ came from and why it is still being used.

Also, why the opinion polls got the Kenyan elections wrong.

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10 minutes

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Sun 17 Mar 2013 03:50GMT

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