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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.   NAACP Continues War Against Tests And Education Daniel Greenfield, Front […]

The aftermath of last week’s presidential debate ruled the land of the internet for, like, three whole days. Twitter and the blogosphere burst with excuses for the POTUS’ underwhelming performance and slo-mo video clips of Mitt Romney allegedly cheating by bringing notes with him. Big Bird n’em stole the show, though. After Romney claimed he […]

Chris Brown wants his fans to know that he’s torn between two women.   In a video released by Brown, the singer admits that he’s drunk and then proceeds to consider whether one can love two people at the same time: “When you share history with somebody, then you tend to fall in love with […]

A video currently making the its rounds on the internet suggests that Mitt Romney may have used a cheat sheet during Wednesday night’s Presidential debate. The rules of Presidential debates have always stipulated that no one bring in outside materials. So what did Romney pull out of his pocket?

The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.8% last month. These are the lowest unemployment numbers we’ve seen in four years, undoubtedly giving President Obama a very important victory heading into election day.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF5rZlE1IOg They. Sing. With voices strained.   They. Dream. With eyes crusted on both sides. And of debates where solutions. To problems don’t get fumbled. By headlines of those who dropped. Or picked up. The right and wrong vernacular tones. Or Concepts. That only legitimize. Failing systems that ignored. My Grandmother. Me. And hopefully not […]

Students and community members at The University of Texas at Austin are up in arms over reports that minority students have been targeted with bleach balloons while on campus. Multiple students of color have alleged that a bleach balloon was dropped on them from apartments on West Campus. They say that the racial epithets levied at […]

Last night’s debate probably says more about the lazy analytical temperament of the American media and public than it does about either of the two candidates. For those of you who demanded to see a more “aggressive” Obama, Keith Boykin has an interesting article offering several reasons why a more impassioned Obama would’ve been strategically superfluous so […]

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.

Get your popcorn ready, folks. Tonight is the first of three presidential debates. President Obama will face off against GOP contender Mitt Romney. Are you excited for tonight’s debate? What issues to you want to see addressed?

CBS reporter Walter Jacobson sat down with a group of “gang members” from Chicago’s Southside. One young man’s response to the question, “What is the solution to the violence plaguing Chicago.” His response: “Killing is the solution.” But was this a fair interview? How do we stop the violence?

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.