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Despite right-wing opposition, black youth have a chance to change the course of history by mobilizing our communities to enroll in the new Affordable Care Act’s healthcare insurance marketplace. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) or “Obamacare,” offers health insurance to more than 40 million people for the first time.

According to the Chicago Tribune, two young men have been charged with murder in the shooting of Hadiya Pendleton. The two suspects were reportedly out for revenge after a previous shooting. They mistook a friend of Pendleton’s for a rival gang member.

In this new data driven society, I fear that in many attempts to track success with numbers, we often lose the qualitative aspects of building strong relationships with black youth.  We see more often business styled reforms being implemented in education systems that prefer to focus on the bottom line of efficiency rather than focusing […]

New America Media | July 20, 2011 Editor’s Note: On July 16, 2011 19-year-old Kenneth Harding was shot and killed after San Francisco police officers had stopped him on the T-Train for having no fare. Silicon Valley De-Bug interviewed Bayview youth/community and young people on their thoughts and feelings on the shooting.