Lost in the conversation surrounding sequestration is the disproportionate impact it will have on minorities.Spending cuts to important programs will likely deepen racial inequality in the U.S. Do you think the Obama Administration and Congress will be able to reach an agreement?
1. The state of Connecticut sentenced Tonya McDowell to five years in jail in part for sending stealing a free education. McDowell, who was homeless at the time, used a babysitter’s address to enroll her son in a school that was not in the district where she had last lived permanently. McDowell wanted to send […]
Every week, the Black Youth Project collects the top news stories about black youth from across the country. This week: “Are black male doctors becoming endangered?,” “Feds probing Seattle schools’ treatment of black students,” and more!
February’s unemployment rate is the lowest since December 2008, but unemployment amongst African Americans did not change and remains very high. What can and should be done to address black unemployment?
Often when I tell people I am from Detroit (particularly white people), I am often met with a look of either bewilderment or amazement. This shock is often magnified when I tell people that I attended Detroit Public Schools all my life. I suppose people begin to short circuit when I tell them my birthplace […]
A potentially damning email will serve as the core of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Michael Jackson’s mother and children. It suggests that Jackson’s personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray was pressured into getting Jackson to rehearse in spite of health concerns.
A NYC elementary school math teacher is in big trouble after assigning students a set of word problems that dealt with the selling and killing of slaves. The teacher, Jane Youn, has apologized and says she was simply trying to fuse a slavery history lesson with math.
Police chose to inform Georgia mother Anna Lamb-Creasey of her son’s death via Facebook. The message wasn’t even from an official police Facebook account. Due to the confusion, it took 20 days for her to learn the truth about her son’s whereabouts. Horrible.
Cleopatra Cowley – mother of slain Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton – is featured in a new gun control ad; she specifically cites universal background checks as a necessary, commonsense reform. Do you agree? What other reforms would you like to see?
The President’s visit was one moment in a longer struggle to radically improve the lives of black and Latino youth. Now that the President has come and gone we all have work to do!
Now is the time to speak out. Hadiya’s murder is serving as our modern day Emmett Till with an open casket funeral exposing the senseless violence and brutality that has claimed far too many young people’s lives in this country.
As authorities try to determine if the remains from a cabin fire are actually those of Christopher Dorner, yet another black ex-LAPD officer confirms the rampant racism occurring within the department.
