giving me life

a wonderful & incoherent collection of things that — for the moment — are giving me life

African-American women are less likely to marry than white women overall, but educated black women are considerably more likely to marry than their less-educated counterparts. As of 2008, 70 percent of African-American female college graduates had married, compared with 60 percent of high school graduates and just 53 percent of high school dropouts. - People can’t seem to decide whether we’re getting married or not. But here’s the latest via Marriage Suits Educated Women - NYTimes.com