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World Service,30 Sep 2010,25 mins

Black and Single

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It's hard finding your man in America if you're black and single. Recent US studies have shown that the number of college educated black women getting married has decreased by a third since the 1970s. Although part of a wider trend, African American women are facing significantly worse statistics that white women in finding their man and starting a family. For Assignment Nina Robinson travelled to New York to find out what it’s like to be black and single and looking for marriage.

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