Blacks hit hard by economy's punch 34.5 percent of young African American men are unemployed By V. Dion Haynes Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 24, 2009 These days,
24-year-old Delonta Spriggs spends much of his time cooped up in his mother's one-bedroom apartment in Southwest Washington, the TV blaring soap operas hour after hour, trying to stay out of the streets and out ...