{"id":18232,"date":"2010-03-03T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_state-church_groups_focus_on_problems_facing_black_males\/"},"modified":"2010-03-03T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T16:00:00","slug":"the_state-church_groups_focus_on_problems_facing_black_males","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18232","title":{"rendered":"(The State)&#8211;Church groups focus on problems facing black males"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Don Robinson Sr. scribbled notes fast and furiously Monday as children&#8217;s advocate Marian Wright Edelman described the &#8220;cradle to prison pipeline&#8221; that has trapped young African-American males in a cycle of poverty, criminality, joblessness and despair.<\/p>\n<p>Edelman was blunt in her assessment of the crisis that brought leaders and members of three prominent African-American denominations to Columbia for the three-day Great Gathering, a meeting that bishops said Monday was prompted by the &#8220;call of God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robinson, a pastor from McBee who ministers to inmates at the Kershaw Correctional Center, is witness on a weekly basis to the tribulations that plague the young black inmates who enter his class hoping to learn how to study the Bible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2010\/03\/02\/1182065\/church-groups-focus-on-problems.html?storylink=omni_popular\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Don Robinson Sr. scribbled notes fast and furiously Monday as children&#8217;s advocate Marian Wright Edelman described the &#8220;cradle to prison pipeline&#8221; that has trapped young African-American males in a cycle of poverty, criminality, joblessness and despair. Edelman was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18232\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,54,125,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-men","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}