Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announces a five-year plan to invest $50 million in youth-serving programs. Hopefully this plan will be informed by the input of the community.
A federal report released by 27 education experts calls America’s education inequities a “dire” situation; called for equal access to quality teachers, school finance reform, and an expansion of early childhood education.
Comedian Lisa Lampanelli is embroiled in controversy after using the word nigga in a tweet last week. She has defended herself on the grounds that “nigga” and “nigger” are two different words, and that context matters. Thoughts?
Cleopatra Cowley – mother of slain Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton – is featured in a new gun control ad; she specifically cites universal background checks as a necessary, commonsense reform. Do you agree? What other reforms would you like to see?
Now is the time to speak out. Hadiya’s murder is serving as our modern day Emmett Till with an open casket funeral exposing the senseless violence and brutality that has claimed far too many young people’s lives in this country.
We urge the President to go further on Friday during his time in Chicago, and make a substantive speech that addresses the underlying factors that perpetuate violence in Black and Latino communities across the nation.
The Chicago Police Department is almost certain that charges will be made later today against two suspects in the shooting death of Hadiya Pendleton.
Every week, the Black Youth Project collects the top news stories about black youth from across the country. This week: “Incarceration is not only answer to urban youth violence,” “Chicago gets ‘F’ for efforts to stop youth violence,” and more!
As this blog’s resident skeptic, it’s difficult not to conjecture aloud about what decisions were made after the FLOTUS and company attended Hadiya Pendleton’s funeral. Who knows if any of them came back with a “Barack, it’s bad. You can’t keep ignoring them” so compelling that the POTUS actually stopped reading this month’s Ebony and paid attention. […]
BYP is pleased to report that President Obama will visit Chicago this Friday to address a variety topics, but will shine a particular spotlight on Chicago’s gun violence crisis.
Washington Post columnist Rahiel Tesfamariam’s latest column examines Chicago’s gun violence crisis, and the need for President Obama to take a more active role in addressing that crisis. We agree; sign our petition at http://Change.org/BarackComeHome
About 2 months ago I relocated to San Francisco to start a new job in Silicon Valley. When I arrived to the Bay Area I was initially struck by the hilly and picturesque terrain of the city and the spirit of ingenuity amongst the residents. Yet, like any bustling cosmopolitan area, I noticed very quickly […]
