A group of CPS students gathered in honor of Hadiya Pendleton yesterday, and to draw attention to the gun violence many of them said threatens their own lives.
Jasiri X and David Banner at the One Hood Media Academy Opening Ceremony (Photo by Imran X) Grammy award winning Rapper/Producer David Banner was the keynote speaker at our One Hood Media Academy Opening Ceremony in Pittsburgh last week. During Q and A Amil Cook, educator and founding member of #HipHopEd (a twitter conversation that takes place every Tuesday […]
Chicago Police are now offering a $40,000 reward for information pertaining to the shooting death of 15 year-old Hadiya Pendleton. Originally $11,000, the department was able to up the dollar amount after a flood of donations from the public.
At a march in honor of Hadiya Pendleton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and other civic leaders, implored President Obama to use his voice and influence to lead a national conversation on the crisis of gun violence in his hometown.
Below is an original poem I wrote after my childhood friend, Naomi Clyburn, was murdered in my hometown.
A 2008 anti-gang PSA has surfaced featuring Hadiya Pendleton when she was in the 6th grade. It’s a haunting, heartbreaking video.
7 year-old Wilson Reyes was accused of stealing $5 from a classmate, and a scuffle ensued. Instead of being sent to the principal’s office, the NYPD took him to a police station, handcuffed Reyes to a wall, and interrogated him for hours.
President Obama voiced his support for a plan for immigration reform, focusing on three pillars of reform: the enforcement of immigration laws, providing a path to citizenship, and reforming the legal immigration system. Thoughts on the plan and the President’s remarks?
A teacher at Las Vegas Academy in Nevada is making headlines for allowing two students to wear KKK outfits for a class project. Was he simply doing his job as a history teacher, or did the project go too far? Should he be punished?
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg has banned food donations to the homeless because the city can’t determine the nutritional value of the donated items. Is this going too far? How can citizens work to counter these laws that inevitably punish those living in poverty?
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During a visit to Nevada next week, President Obama will discuss immigration reform. We can only hope that immigration reform is in fact just that–reform–and that the Obama Administration strongly considers Latino youth while composing and enacting the policy.
