Black institutions that once sustained black communities are now declining

Evidence

But now they are dying. The powerful black press is a shell of what it once was. Many historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs)—traditional incubators of black creativity and leadership—can barely keep their doors open. Even black churches, particularly those committed to a gospel of money, appear to have lost their way. They seem more concerned about wealth than justice. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 346

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to assessing whether the ‘blank-out ballot’ proposal has aged: Glaude diagnoses collapsed institutional infrastructure as the precondition for why electoral politics hollowed out. — connects to: Least-educated blacks show the steepest drop in civic participation — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 352; Integration in the 1960s hollowed out black institutions by drawing talent and audiences away — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 370
• QUESTION: Claim that black churches traded justice for wealth — worth chasing what data or specific cases support the ‘gospel of money’ charge.