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Waverly High School in upstate New York is under fire after reports that a group of white students donned blackface and reenacted Chris Brown’s assault on Rihanna.

Every week, the Black Youth Project collects the top news stories about black youth from across the country. Click here to check out our archive of weekly news round-ups, and check back every Monday for a new roundup of headlines about young black America.   NAACP Continues War Against Tests And Education Daniel Greenfield, Front […]

The NAACP has filed a complaint against eight elite NYC high schools.They allege that the admissions testing for entry into these schools results in effective discrimination against black and Latino students.

Although the Chicago Police Department has had its roughest summer in years, there is some good news to report. Late last month, CPD adopted a new policy that addresses police treatment of transgender citizens. Is this a step in the right direction?

Every week, the Black Youth Project collects the top news stories about black youth from across the country. Click here to check out our archive of weekly news round-ups, and check back every Monday for a new roundup of headlines about young black America.

Every week, the Black Youth Project collects the top news stories about black youth from across the country. Click here to check out our archive of weekly news round-ups, and check back every Monday for a new roundup of headlines about young black America.

23 year-old unarmed Shantel Davis died of a gunshot to the chest after a struggle with two police officers on a busy street in Brooklyn. The NYPD has played up her extensive criminal record, and say the shooting was justified. What do you think>

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared at a black church in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn yesterday morning, and defended the NYPD’s highly controversial “Stop and Frisk” program. Was a black church an appropriate place for this?

17 year-old Baltimore resident and honor student Tiarra Brown was mistakenly arrested and charged with attempted murder in the middle of graduation practice. She was held for four days, missing graduation. Honest mistake, or should there be consequences?

The sentiment that Blacks “should know better” when it comes to prejudice against other groups is a product of white supremacist thinking. Being Black doesn’t imbue us with special powers to automatically understand someone else’s plight…

NYPD officers are caught on tape brutally beating a 19 year-old Bronx resident for no apparent reason. Is this just another example of New York’s racist, oppressive “Stop and Frisk Program” at work?

Okay, sometimes “things” happen in the world that just make me sigh. (Read: blackface cakes meant to represent female genital mutilation.) Over the past few months, there just seems to have been a torrent of misguided gaffes and controversies that continually reveal how much work still needs to be done in the world along the […]