African-American teenagers showed the sharpest declines, down more than 40 percent since 1991.
Two African-American teenagers had died, and $200,000 in damage had been done.
Bobby and Nia, the child's mother, are urban upper-middle-class African-American teenagers in New York.
In the same years, birth rates for both white and African-American teenagers have also dropped substantially.
The band members, mainly African-American teenagers, assembled next to a fountain behind a tall thin young man holding up a flag.
Of African-American teenagers 16 to 19 years old with family incomes of $20,000 or lower, only one in five found work.
In a bedroom on the other side of town, the cheering slackened and the short, pudgy African-American teenager clapped her hands over her keyboard.
African-American teenagers are beset on all sides by dangerous myths about race.
After the train entered Alabama, a fight started between the white hobos and a group of African-American teenagers.
Researchers are unable to pinpoint exact causes for African-American teenagers' underutilization of mental health services.