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Federal Judge says Arkansas no longer has to pay into school desegregation efforts
Earlier this week a federal judge ruled that Arkansas can stop making payments on one of the nation’s most historic desegregation efforts. While the ruling no longer holds the state liable in a financial sense, U.S. District Judge Price Marshall did stress that work still needed to be done to ensure Little Rock-area students receive […]
REPORT: Top Universities Failing to Attract High-Achieving, Low-Income Students
According to a new report, the nation’s top Universities are failing to attract high-achieving low-income students, reinforcing economic inequality and a lack of social mobility. How can top Universities do a better job of reaching low-income students?
COLORLINES Asks Youth of Color: ‘Do Cops Make Schools Safe?’
Lost in the conversation surrounding putting more police officers in school has been the voices of young people, the ones most impacted by such a policy. Colorlines traveled to Los Angeles and spoke with youth of color and get their thoughts on making schools safer.
High School Student Shoots Himself While Handcuffed in Patrol Car
Although he was handcuffed, searched, and then put in the back of a patrol car, police and student officials are claiming that a Houston-area high school student was rushed to the hospital after shooting himself.
Black and Proud in Public: How Black Girls and Women Are Shamed For Being Dope
From proms to graduations, this time of the year is meant to be a celebratory period for high school and college students everywhere. But, when the valedictorian of Central High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama posted her accomplishments on social media, she was met with both admiration and hatred. This is yet another example of the […]
East Chicago student hailed as hero after saving woman, child from car wreck
When East Chicago Central High School student Kendall Brown heard a crash just outside his house, he immediately grabbed his brother and sister and led them to safety. The crash he heard was closer than he thought. The vehicle had actually crashed into the side of his home.
Remembering the Little Rock Nine
Although most of our attention will be channeled towards Charlotte, NC and the DNC, today is also the day 9 black students attempted to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, AR:
July 18, 2011 – July 24, 2011
Silence on black youth arrest rate deafening Ed Wells, Rockford Star, July 22, 2011 A Program for Youth Safety Begins With Just a Sign James Warren, New York Times, July 22, 2011 Black Tea Partiers Protest Alexis Garrest Stodghill, Atlanta Post, July 22, 2011 A Black Class Divide and a Generation of Rage? Mechanics News, […]
Kalamazoo area students headed to Sierra Leone: Urban Youth for Africa program taking 10 this year
Kalamazoo area students headed to Sierra Leone: Urban Youth for Africa program taking 10 this year Fritz Klug, Kalamazoo Gazette | August 3, 201o When 19-year-old Howard Hughes was in Sierra Leone last summer, he met a young man named Santigie, whose sandals would fall off whenever he ran. Hughes gave him a pair of […]
The “Anti-DEI Crusade” is Hurting Black women
By Jenn M. Jackson April 24, 2024 In recent months, Black women’s educational credentials and professional qualifications have been a central topic in the news media following the public attacks on Dr. Claudine Gay, the first Black woman to be President of Harvard University, and the ongoing political debates about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) […]
We were Transformed, but was the World? Reflecting on a Decade of Black-led Movement
by Asha Ransby-Sporn A full decade ago this summer, I arrived at a retreat center in the Chicago suburbs with about a hundred other Black organizers, and community leaders from around the country brought together by Cathy Cohen’s Black Youth Project. Not long into former President Barack Obama’s second term, the goal of the gathering […]
I’m tired of seeing my light skin represented in Black media
by Indigo In May, People Magazine reported that 21 year-old model Jordyn Woods would make her acting debut on season two of Freeform’s Grown-ish. Woods is scheduled to guest star as a freshman undergraduate named Dee, who possesses a “soft-spoken and sincere vulnerability” and is expected to share the screen with Trevor Jackson’s character Aaron. […]