How Can We Help Kids Define What Is and Isn’t Healthy Sexuality?

by Akiba Solomon on March 5 2012, 9:52AM

In an age of free porn, rape-promoting video games and stupid advice videos from grown men, childhood sexual exploration is trickier than ever. There are no easy answers. Herewith, a few starting points.

Topics: Akiba Solomon, Gender & Sexuality, Too $hort

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5-Year-Old Stand-Up Comedian’s Jokes About ‘Growing up Black’ Go Viral

by Jorge Rivas on February 29 2012, 11:52AM

Zay Zay is only 5-years old and he’s got a video of him being cute and then not so cute that’s making the rounds on the interwebs.

Topics: Arts & Culture, /NOW Blog

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Milwaukee Journalist Eugene Kane: Black Youth Are 2011 Boogeyman

by Jorge Rivas on January 4 2012, 12:07PM

A columnist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says the city’s black youth are “out of control.”

Topics: /NOW Blog, Schools & Youth

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All Families Can Love Their LGBT Kids—Really, There’s Data to Prove It

by MIchael Lavers on November 7 2011, 9:40AM

A unique research project followed LGBT youth from teens to adulthood to document how families from specific racial, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds dealt with their coming out—and to develop targeted tools to help other families.

Topics: Gender & Sexuality

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After the Riots, “Broken” Britain Grows Still More Fractured

by Michelle Chen on August 18 2011, 10:44AM

Lost amid all the racialized, anti-youth invective is the story of youth on the margins, whose voices go ignored until they explode in collective rebellion. Michelle Chen explores what happens next for London’s fractured neighborhoods.

Topics: Global Affairs, Global Justice, London Riots

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White, Rich Gay Couples More Acceptable than Single Moms

by Akiba Solomon on March 21 2011, 12:49PM

A strange little MSNBC story shows how race and class blindness can complicate good news about changing attitudes.

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After Cleveland, Texas: Eight Ways Black Men Can Fight Rape

by Akiba Solomon on March 17 2011, 3:17PM

Anti-rape activist Dr. R’Leureux Lewis gives black men simple (and not-so-simple) ways to interrupt rape culture—and break down the negative stereotypes that help fuel it.

Topics: Akiba Solomon, Texas Rape

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The Gang Rape of a Latina 6th Grader, and a Horrific Community Response

by Akiba Solomon on March 14 2011, 2:48PM

Eighteen black boys and men are accused of gang-raping an 11-year-old Latina in this small East Texas town. What now?

Topics: Akiba Solomon, Texas Rape

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Activists Still Push to Close California’s Youth Prisons

by Thoai Lu on March 8 2011, 10:00AM

Gov. Jerry Brown has a revised plan to reform the state’s youth prisons. But will it go anywhere?

Topics: Schools & Youth

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Meet 25 of America’s Future Black Leaders

by Thoai Lu on February 16 2011, 11:48AM

Check out The Root’s list of young futurists.

Topics: Schools & Youth

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Pint-Sized Rap Stars Hit the World Stage

by Jorge Rivas on December 9 2010, 1:17PM

But are these YouTube sensations a good idea?

Topics: Arts & Culture

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Oakland Turf Dancing Gets More National Exposure

by Jamilah King on December 6 2010, 12:34PM

In just a matter of months, a video’s gone from viral sensation to national call for action.

Topics: Arts & Culture, Schools & Youth

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“Dear First Lady Michelle” — Young Students Write to the Obamas

by Jorge Rivas on November 30 2010, 12:32PM

Kids ask about everything from divorce to immigration policy.

Topics: Schools & Youth

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Rinku Sen and Billy Parish: Young, Green, and Broke

by Rinku Sen on October 6 2009, 8:08AM

This piece was coauthored with Billy Parish of the Energy Action Coalition; it originally appeared at the Huffington Post. Last week, the Labor Department reported that youth unemployment stands at 18.2%, nearly twice the national average of 9.8%. The percentage…

Topics: Economy, Environment

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New Push to Encourage Parents to Adopt Black Children [VIDEO]

by Guest Columnist on September 18 2009, 10:46AM

by Todd Johnson; originally published at TheGrio.com. Jordan Sarazin was in foster care just five months after she was born. But in 2006, everything changed. She was adopted by Magalie Jean-Gilles, who has spent nearly a decade caring for dozens…

Topics: Video & Multimedia

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Good Gangs

by Michelle Chen on August 31 2009, 8:48PM

Over the past few years, the phenomenon of youth gangs has spawned its own field of criminology—part social science, part political spectacle. Police have been declaring war on gangs for decades, officials have deployed social workers, teachers and “gang…

Topics: Criminal Justice

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Broken bootstraps: Black and Latino Youth in Transition

by Michelle Chen on August 28 2009, 9:56PM

They started with nothing, worked tirelessly, saved every penny, pushed their kids hard in school and sent them straight into middle-class suburban bliss. American Dream realized. The end. New research from the Urban Institute paints a more complex picture…

Topics: Economy

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Looking Good, Looking Ahead: Q&A with Bobbito Garcia

by Guest Columnist on August 21 2009, 4:33PM

By Ivan Maestre I had the opportunity to ask tastemaker and trendsetter and Creative Chief of Project 2050, Bobbito Garcia, a few questions earlier this week about his political thoughts and what he’s been working on. He had a few…

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Queen Latifah’s Got a Cure For Your Racial Tension Headache

by Julianne Hing on August 14 2009, 3:23PM

RACIAL TENSION HEADACHE @ Yahoo! Video Love this oldie but goodie. I would buy anything the Queen sells—though maybe not the new line of perfume she’s hawking—but I know we could all use us some Excedrin - Racial Tension Relief…

Topics: Video & Multimedia

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Schwarzenegger’s Blockbuster Budget Cuts Terminate the Safety Net [VIDEO]

by Channing Kennedy on August 13 2009, 9:37AM

When financial crisis hit, the California legislature didn’t raise taxes, end tax giveaways, or cut corporate welfare. Instead, they cut services to the people made most vulnerable by the recession — children, the elderly, the sick, victims of domestic…

Topics: Economy, Politics, Schools & Youth, Video & Multimedia

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