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The entire city of Boston is on lockdown and both an MIT police officer and one of the Boston bombing suspects are dead after a horrific night of shootouts, explosions, and high speed car chases. The suspects were reportedly brothers; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is still at large. The craziness began last night after a robbery […]

An organization called Detroit’s Youth Voice have organized a march this Saturday to “break the School-to-Prison Pipeline.” Great to see young people taking to the streets and making their voices heard regarding such an important issue.

Tonya McDowell – a 34 year-old homeless woman – has been given prison time for sending her child to a better school out of her district. Should a parent receive jail time for securing a quality education for her child?

Parents and school officials at Washburn High School were shocked to learn that four students had hung a black baby doll by its neck, and then posted photos of the incident on social media sites.

Parents of some white students say the material – which deals with the idea of ‘White Privilege’ – sends the message that minorities are oppressed by white people. So of course they want the course banned.

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

Earlier this week, yet another video went viral of a bus driver duking it out with a passenger. Apparently, this bus driver has been suspended. Is there ever an excuse for this kind of behavior? Wouldn’t it have been nice if the bystanders put down their phones and broke up the fight?

A young black woman was physically assaulted by a Cleveland RTA bus driver before being kicked off the bus. The clip went viral after it was posted on World Star Hip Hop.

racially-charged incident of hazing at a high school in Wynne, Arkansas has an entire community up in arms. An African American students was hazed by his white teammates on a junior varsity football team. They made the young man wear a noose around his neck.

Oakland School District will allow the Dept. of Education to monitor their disciplinary procedures, to ensure that Black students are not receiving harsher punishments than their white peers. Black males were suspended at six times the rate of their white counterparts during the 2010-2011 academic year.

Several months ago, The BYP featured articles about the fallout following the death of Robert Champion, a former drum major for FAMU’s famed The Marching 100. Now, allegations charge university’s dance team with similar behavior: Florida A&M University, still reeling from the hazing-related death of a marching band drum major 10 months ago, on Tuesday […]

According to a recent report, Illinois LEADS THE NATION in suspending black children, and has the widest gap in suspension rates between white and black students.