Black Youth

Report: New York has the most segregated public school system in the country

For fourth straight year, Chicago high school graduates all college-bound

BYP Memo: What Young People Think About the Affordable Care Act

Report: black students suspended at higher rates than whites, trend starts as soon as preschool

Music video calls attention to story of Leon Ford

Juicy J plans to start scholarship foundation

Report: Fewer black, Latino students admitted to NYC’s top schools

Father shoots, kills 17-year-old boy in daughter’s bedroom

Study: Public, police view black youth as older, less innocent than whites

Tracy Martin: ‘America values guns more than the lives of our kids’

Mother of brain dead girl insist she is ‘not a corpse’

6-year-old gives back, makes a difference in New York City

‘HOODIES UP!’ march to take protest of day of Trayvon Martin death

Members of NAACP St. Paul Youth & Collegiate Branch hold protest against school-to-prison pipeline

Video: Mother of slain child uses music, social media to spread message of peace, find son’s killer

Teen shot and killed while shoveling snow, was going to take mom to prom

‘Dilla Youth Day’ event seeks to honor legacy of late producer on birthday weekend

Nebraska has highest black homicide rate in nation

Study reveals promising approach for helping challenged students

Color of Change petition urges District Attorney R. Seth Williams to drop charges against Darrin Manning

Oakland mother loses two sons to gun violence in less than 3 weeks

BYP & BYP 100 Present…’MLK Then & Now: Rebuilding the Black Freedom Movement Through King’s Legacy’

High School basketball players suspended for throwing up 3-pt. symbols

Announcement: Registration for the ‘Be Exceptional’ Spring Break College Tour open

Former inmate-turned-mentor challenges gang members to turn their lives around

Juicy J awards $50,000 scholarship to biology student Zaire Holmes

Study: ‘Hip Hop’ students unfairly targeted

Guest on Fox News refers to minimum wage as ‘Black Teenage Unemployment Act’ calls for its dissolution

Nonprofit seeks to expose black girls to world through travel

Moziah Bridges, Melissa Jade Aiello among young fashion designers to look out for in 2014

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