Focusing On Young Men Of Color Will Benefit The Nation
President Obama just recently announced a new initiative called My Brother’s Keeper. The idea of the initiative is to focus…
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Black Girls In Confinement Face Barriers To Education
Over the course of 14 months, Dr. Monique Morris took a close look at the educational experiences of confined black girls in the California Bay Area juvenile system. Youth Radio’s Darelle Brown interviewed Dr. Morris about her findings.
Ambassador of Blackness
Before moving to Oakland, I never really thought about being black. Growing up in Atlanta, my whole world was black. Black history was taught frequently in school– before and beyond the month of February.
Perceptions and Judgements On The People Of Color
It’s sad that still until this day my people are being judged by the color of our skin and not the content of our character.
No Black Artists Had a No. 1 Hit in 2013
Not one African American artist had a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in all of 2013. This is the first time this has happened in all of the Billboard chart ‘s 55 years of existence.
Rates of Incarceration For White and Hispanic Women On The Rise
According to a new study by The Sentencing Project, “The Changing Racial Dynamics of Women’s Incarceration,” women’s incarceration rates have outpaced…