Youth

14-year-old boy risks life to save disabled man, dog from deadly fire

White district sends black youth back to failing schools

Video: 9-year-old girl courted by college basketball team

Gabby Douglas honored with wax figure at Madame Tussauds

In first appearance, Englewood teen upsets in French Open

16-year-old sentenced to 15 years for robbery after judge changes mind

Members launch first Youth-led organization

Report: inner city youth suffer from ‘hood disease’, drastic effects on health

Voto Latino, MacArthur Foundation announces $500,000 VL Innovators Challenge

Sixth person charged in death of Endia Martin

Shocking footage reveals teachers aides abusing child

Rhymefest releases new album, donates a portion of profits to Donda’s House

Kanye West, Common create more than 20,000 jobs for Chicago Youth

Fourth grader denied right to play on school basketball team

America’s Most Wanted: Hip hop, the Media & the Prison Industrial Complex

Major changes coming to popular standardized test, could boost black student performance

15-year-old suspended for suspected ‘gang signs’ in picture

Genius Alert: teen turns poverty into triumph

BYP 100, Project Nia ban together to create youth jobs bill focused on training, work for young people

CPS Report: privately run charter schools expel students at higher rates

Chicago’s Goodman Theater to honor Trayvon Martin with 10 short plays

New York to no longer place minors in solitary confinement

Report: The long-term health effects of bullying

BYP Memo: Equal Protection? Race and Young People’s Attitudes Toward the Legal System

Michael Dunn tells fiancé that he is both the ‘victim and the victor’ in fatal Jordan Davis shooting

Angela Corey announces that Michael Dunn will be retried for murder of Jordan Davis

Report: black students are the most underrepresented among Advanced Placement test takers

School bans students from writing about Malcolm X

Justice for Jordan Davis: ‘I had no choice but to shoot Jordan Davis’

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

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