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The Black unemployment rate ticked down from 8.9 percent in March to 8.8 percent in April and Black men showed gains in the labor market, according to the latest jobs report from the Labor Department.

The unemployment rate for Blacks fell from 11.4 percent to 11 percent and the labor force participation increased from 61 percent in August to 61.7 percent in September, largely because of short-term gains made by Black men, according to the latest jobs report from the Labor Department.

Black men are no better off than they were more than 40 years ago, due to mass incarceration and job losses suffered during the Great Recession, according to a new report by researchers at the University of Chicago.

The epidemic is so ferocious among American Black gay and bisexual men it rivals those seen in sub-Saharan African countries that are hardest hit by the virus that causes AIDS. HIV/AIDS is literally killing the future of gay Black men, robbing men of quality of life and America of future leaders.