The recent recession etched deep pain across New York and throughout the United States. Yet no group fared worse than black men, a fifth of whom are now unemployed–more than twice the rate for whites–and a record number of whom are not in the labor force at all. City Limits’ March 2010 special investigation on New York City’s black male unemployment earned the New York Society of Professional Journalists’ Deadline Club for best reporting on communities of color in 2011.