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Top News Stories About Black Youth from Across the Nation: January 8 – 14

Gun Advocate Says If Blacks Had Been Armed They Never Would Have Been Slaves

President Obama Will Use Bibles Belonging to Dr. King and Abe Lincoln For Inauguration Ceremony

White House Considers Funding More Police Officers in Public Schools

Original Poetry: Why More Guns Will Result in More Black Youth Dying

Stop Bashing Black Youth in 2013

Beasts of the Southern Wild’s Quvenzhané Wallis is Youngest Ever Best Actress Nominee

Skittles and Cell Phones: An Update on Rekia Boyd’s Murder

NYPD Stop and Frisk Program in The Bronx Ruled Unconstitutional

Philly Teen Cameron Clarke Scores PERFECT 2400 On SATs

Widow of Medgar Evers To Deliver Invocation at Obama Inauguration

REPORT: Homeless Black Youth Are Largely Invisible to Service Providers

White Supremacist Teen Charged w/ Planning Attack on High School

3 Years Later Rebuilding Has Barely Started in Earthquake Ravaged Haiti

Ben Jealous Calls Out Sen. Tim Scott on His Horrible Record on Civil Rights

They’re Selling Django Unchained Slave Dolls?!

Top News Stories About Black Youth from Across the Nation: Dec 31 – Jan 7

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STUDY: Black Students Taught Racial Pride Do Better in School

How Will Teacher Trust Impact Black Youth in the New Year?

The Politics of Ratchetness

Youth and Black Unemployment Numbers are SKY HIGH; What Needs to Be Done?

Wisconsin Student Suspended for Placing Noose and KKK Symbols on Black Peer’s Desk

Armed Teacher Training Program Launches in 15 STATES

505 Chicagoans Murdered in 2012; Including 108 Young People

San Francisco Teen Suspended from School Over Poem Inspired By Sandy Hook Shooting

GOP State Senator Attacks Kwanzaa: ‘Almost No Black People Care About It’

What is the Current Direction of Hip-Hop?

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