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CNN (via Huffington Post) | June 1, 2011 The debate over segregation continues at one of the nation’s top schools after the principal received the following message: integrate or lose funding. According to CNN , Connecticut’s Capital Preparatory Magnet School, which boasts a 100 percent graduation rate, was at risk of being closed if they failed to […]

Teachers in Tough Places David Chura, Huffington Post | June 3, 2011 It was a busman’s holiday. Thirty people in a room, all teachers in high school and GED programs in various prisons from across New York State, listening to me talk about teaching locked up kids. The conference was in Saratoga Springs with lots […]

Race, Politics and the Minimum Wage Jason L. Riley, Wall Street Journal | May 6, 2011 The summer months will bring summer job seekers, and prospects aren’t good for the nation’s young adults. Overall unemployment just inched back up to 9%, and the teenage unemployment rate in March was 24.5%. Black teens have been faring […]

A long, hot, jobless summer in store for teens Rhonda Tsoi-A-Fatt, The Grio | May 9, 2011 More than 50 years ago, Eddie Cochran captured the frustration of American teenagers with his hit single “Summertime Blues”. He sang about a young man lamenting that he has to work all summer long, doesn’t get time to spend with […]

Only One In Four Young Black Men In New York Have A Job: Study Huffington Post, December 14, 2010 A new study paints a bleak portrait of the unemployment landscape faced by young black men in New York City. The headline of the report, filed by theCommunity Service Society of New York reads, “Only One in […]

Discipline rate of black students in Del., elsewhere is probed Nichole Dobo, USA Today | October 17, 2010 WILMINGTON, Del. — The U.S. Department of Education‘s office of civil rights is investigating whether black male students are punished disproportionately in theChristina School District in Wilmington andNewark, one of five districts nationwide under scrutiny for its discipline record. […]

Since I only write here at BYP on Mondays, the blogging silence of the other six days often results in hateration build up.  Fortunately, I take notes.  What follows is a rather desultory dose of scathing haterade for your Monday morning.  Who needs caffeine? Feel my body! gettin’ cooooold. As a friend said on Facebook, […]

Diversity Debate Convulses Elite High School Sharon Otterman, New York Times | August 4, 2010 With one of its alumnae, Elena Kagan, poised for confirmation as a justice on the United States Supreme Court, it should be a triumphant season for Hunter College High School, a New York City public school for the intellectually gifted.But […]

Scuffle at Meeting over NC School Resegregation Associated Press, July 21, 2010 Protesters and police scuffled Tuesday at a school board meeting in North Carolina over claims that a new busing system would resegregate schools, roiling racial tensions reminiscent of the 1960s. Nineteen people were arrested, including the head of state NAACP chapter who was […]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJxjxrz-jVc&feature=related When the first video of Kat Stacks being slapped by Bow Wow’s male fans became viral on YouTube back in June, I was immediately angered by the physical act of violence and then equally angered by the misogynistic rhetorical of male honor and female “sexual” dishonor that legitimized the beating of Kat Stacks. However, […]

NBC Nightly News | June 30, 2010 Making a Difference: For 30 years, The South Shore Drill Team has been providing a refuge for Chicago kids who are looking for a safe place to fit in.  NBC’s Kevin Tibbles reports.

Budget cuts more painful at inner-city LA schools Christina Hoag, Associated Press, June 28, 2010 LOS ANGELES (AP) — When state budget cuts imperiled city schools, a group of parents fought back by enlisting Hollywood stars to spread a message targeting one of their own, Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggar. The satirical video featuring actors Megan Fox […]