tips on what to say visit underagedrinking.samhsa.gov a message from the substance abuse and mental health services administrationedition of "beyond the headlines." i'm eric thomas. we're having a roundtable discussion about issues relating to bay area's african-american community. ronald davis with department of justice c.o.p.s. office, and steven anthony jones from lorraine hansbury theater. dr. woods, let's start with you this time. there's an interesting program called the african-american student success initiative. what's that about? >> we have a group of faculty members that -- who voluntarily came together when i put out a call that we have an initiative to graduate our african-american students at east bay. this is nationally, actually. there's a major gap between graduation rates for european-american students and african-american students. it's almost 20 to 30%. we want to look at what the problem is and to come up with programs that would help our students graduate. we get students in to -- onto the campus. they're 10%, 11% of our population. but then only half of that or less than half graduation in

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