As a measure of how lefty my upbringing was, we had a portrait of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt hanging on the kitchen wall. My parents were ’60s activists-turned-urban pioneer social workers, my father a charter member of Missouri’s New Left, ...
In 1965, then-Assistant Secretary of Labor (later US Senator) Daniel Patrick Moynihan sounded the alarm in his report on the state of the black American family. Black families, he noted, had a far higher proportion of children born to single mothers ...