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Now Reading: Survey of Young People in Egypt {PDF}

Haitian youths use hip-hop to inspire earthquake recovery

An enterprising group of 10 boys who were separated from their parents during the January 2010 earthquake are using hip-hop to inspire their fellow Haitians to rebuild the country.

NYC High Schoolers Write Dope Political Play, Punk Bureaucrats

Now Reading: The Culture of Cool: Getting in Early to Prevent Domestic Violence {PDF}

Unleashing the Power of Art, Culture, and Media to Transform Black Communities {Event}

The Harlem Children’s Zone, American Values Institute, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the Open Society Foundations host a community town hall discussion to kick off Black Male: Re-Imagined—a national summit to address the negative perceptions and associations of black men and boys in American society.

Imagining Black Womanhood: The Negotiation of Power and Identity Within the Girls Empowerment Project

Imagining Black Womanhood by Stephanie D. Sears is a sociological account of the experiences of young African-American girls within the Girls Empowerment Project (GEP), an “Afri-centric, womanist, single-sex, after-school program” in Sun Valley, the largest housing development in Bay City, California. Set against the backdrop of a “nation’s collective anxieties” regarding Black women and girls, Imagining Black Womanhood is a well-researched and thoughtful interrogation of race, gender, and class and how the experiences of young Black girls struggling to resist stereotypes within and outside the GEP project speak to broader questions of power, privilege, and politics. Despite the (ironically) unimaginative title, Imagining Black Womanhood is a commendable effort by Sears to question, with equal academic rigor, discourses of empowerment, as well as oppression, in addition to showing how the biases that inform many of the stereotypes that these girls must struggle against come from across the political spectrum and across racial lines.

Now Reading: Youth, armed violence and job creation programmes: A Rapid Mapping Study {PDF}

Some teens told of being shoved into ESL classes even though they spoke English just fine, or being told by teachers that they’d never graduate. They reported being isolated in school or shoved into academic tracks that did not meet their needs. Others spoke of seeing their family members being exploited by bosses, being mistreated and paid less than minimum wage for hard work. They talked about ways in which adults’ biases have more than an emotional impact on young Latinos’ lives.

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Sherri Shepherd to Mentor Teen Girls in Atlanta

And then what? 3 days of mentoring and then what? Will these young women have a sustained connection to these celebrities? Or is this an “I do my part, pop in and out” thang? I’m so tired of this feel good sh*t. What about the down and dirty?

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