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  "path": "/2026/06/16/the-vanishing-black-family/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-16T13:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "This is an adapted excerpt from Delano Squires’ new book “The Vanishing Black Family: How Welfare and Feminism Made Marriage Optional and Children Vulnerable,” out June 16 from Sentinel. “Raise your hand if you’re married.” This was the opening line in a 1986 CBS documentary on black families in Newark, New Jersey. Bill Moyers, the journalist who narrated the television special, asked...",
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