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A Global  Youth Rebellion Staff Writer, Workers World News, 10/23/11   NAACP speaker: We must address achievement gap Kevin Barlow, Pantagraph News, 10/24/11   Inner city youth leader to speak Mark Guydish, The Times Leader, 10/24/11   Obama courts young voters Nia-Malika Henderson, Washington Post, 10/26/11   Coalition of African American Leaders Takes Aim at […]

This month marks my 2year anniversary as a blogger for the Black Youth Project. When Dr. Cathy Cohen suggested that I share my thoughts with the world on this digital platform I was a little apprehensive to say the least.  I wasn’t quite sure if anyone would care to read, nor was I sure if […]

By the time I was old enough to learn to type or make any use of the internet, it was on its way into people’s homes and everyday lives. Despite that, it has evolved enough to not only transform news media, but create mediums and ways of spreading information which would have been inconceivable ten […]

Racism grows classier and more refined every day, but it never goes away. How else can we explain the American people tolerating the unprecedented disrespect, racism, obstruction and outright legislative terrorism being perpetrated by the GOP?

Aug 1st – 7th   White supremacist principal running Bronx school with majority black and Latino students Corinne Lestch, Daily News Writer, 8/1/11   The Racist Scourge Roger Cohen, The New York Times , 8/1/11   Choosing Between an HBCU And a PWI Ja’el Gordon, Huffington Post, 8/3/11   Strategic Plan for CHS Aims to […]

This spring I decided to try out a new look. Don’t worry I didn’t decide to bleach my hair like Wiz Khalifa or Chris Brown (reminds me too much of Sisqo which should be self-explanatory). Towards the end of my junior year of college I embarked on a beard growing journey. My inspiration for the […]

We Must Educate All Our Young Men Gaston Caperton and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Root | June 17, 2011 Since this nation was founded more than two centuries ago, there has been nearly constant tension between tradition and evolution. Yet over the years, from the Civil War to the civil rights movement, the forces of […]

Teachers in Tough Places David Chura, Huffington Post | June 3, 2011 It was a busman’s holiday. Thirty people in a room, all teachers in high school and GED programs in various prisons from across New York State, listening to me talk about teaching locked up kids. The conference was in Saratoga Springs with lots […]

Behind Bars: For Black Girls, Acting Out Is a Crime Equal Voice Newspaper (via New America Media), Kathy Mulady | May 30, 2011 CHICAGO—LeaJay Harper says she was a typically rebellious teenager raised by a single mother. She left home at 17 and lived on the streets, surviving on stale donated bread and sleeping on […]

Last week I lost a hero. The man who helped me fall in love with power of the spoken word passed away leaving behind timeless pieces of greatness that will continue to empower the most marginalized and disaffected.  Gil Scott-Heron used his pen and voice to challenge racism and classism. His mere existence made it […]

Some schools still struggle despite efforts Tina Marie Macias, The Advertiser, April 23, 2011 Jobless rate for young workers in US highest since 1948 James Brewer, WS News, April 22, 2011 Racist graffiti found at Birmingham Seaholm High School Tammy Stables, Detroit Free Press, April 22, 2011 NU students help close the achievement gap at […]

Manning Marable, Historian and Social Critic, Dies at 60 William Grimes, New York Times | April 1, 2011 Manning Marable, a leading scholar of black history and a leftist critic of American social institutions and race relations, whose long-awaited biography of Malcolm X, more than a decade in the writing, is scheduled to be published on […]