876 Search results for "reports"

Obama Administration: "Black Male Teachers Needed"
CNN | June 14, 2010 Education Secretary Arne Duncan wants more African-American males as teachers. CNN’s Tony Harris reports.
May 31, 2010 – June 6, 2010
The Kansas City School District works to erase a tragic history Rick Montgomery, The Kansas City Star, June 6, 2010 Teens face drought in summer jobs Kathy McCabe, The Boston Globe, June 6, 2010 Outreach program spreads its wings Monique Muise, The Gazette, June 5, 2010 Boys & Girls Club support literally opens new doors […]
May 24, 2010 – May 30, 2010
It is a G.R.E.A.T. program Larry Brock, The Richmond Register, May 29, 2010 Local students visit historically black schools Annie Martin, The Enquirer, May 29, 2010 Youth violence fight goes online Kirsty Noffke, Twee Daily News, May 28, 2010 Basketball helps Stop the Violence Ben Roberts, WALB News, May 28, 2010 Got a steep college […]
The 2010 Kent Lecture and my Unhealthiness
On the eve of the 2010 Kent Lecture I must admit that I am a bit nervous about the lecture. To give a little background, the Kent Lecture is in honor of Dr. George E. Kent, the first tenured Black professor at University of Chicago. In past year’s Dr. Cornel West, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, […]
WHAT THE F@%! HAPPENED!? (PT. III): Amy Winehouse
Winehouse was touted as a world class vocalist, a supremely gifted songwriter, and a certified game-changer within the landscape of popular music. And then everything went wrong. Very wrong.
WHAT THE F@%! HAPPENED?! (PT. II): D'Angelo
By the end of 2000, D’Angelo was without question THE man, receiving commercial and critical success, and thus free to go in any direction he wanted artistically. And then he disappeared.
Warning to Facebook Users: Worldwide Virus Spreading
CNN | March 18, 2010 CNN’s Errol Barnett reports on fraudulent Facebook messages and what to do to protect yourself.
Former Security Guard Starts His Own High School
CBS News | February 12, 2010 An alternative all-boys high school on Cleveland’s hard luck Eastside is being turned around by a former security guard. In the three years since it opened, not one kid has flunked out. Jim Axelrod reports.
It's better than money: It's FOOD STAMPS!
I read the New York Times article titled “Food Stamps Usage Soars, Stigma Fades.” The article is about the lessening of stigma regarding the use of food stamps. What comes to mind when you think of the U.S. welfare system, specifically food stamps or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)? For me, I remember seeing black single mothers with multiple […]
November 30, 2009 – December 6, 2009
HIV Increasing Among Michigan Teenagers Jerry Wolffe, Daily Tribune, December 6, 2009 Evidence-based and about common sense, too O. Ricardo Pimentel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisconsin), December 6, 2009 Black Youths Miss Out on Good Jobs News Sara Murray, The Wall Street Journal, December 4, 2009 Florida’s Graduation Rate Highest Point Ever States News Service, December 4, 2009 Friday Dorsey High’s […]
Facts and Fictions
Like Che printed t-shirts and Darfur doo-rags, tragedy has become fashionable. It isn’t rare that I find someone trading stories (with great excitement) about a friend of a friend who was in Indonesia during the tsunami, or meet an artist eager to proclaim that he lost everything in New Orleans. Surely, a life of meaning […]
Welcome to the Black Youth Project
Welcome! Today marks the official launch of the new Black Youth Project website. Here you will find blogs, our rap lyrics database, news articles, reports, curriculum and much more. Click here to read the official press release and here to watch a video, both of which give an overview of what we offer on this […]