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VideoStudy Finds Latino Toddlers Make Up For Scholastic Shortcomings With Strong Social Skills
by Jorge Rivas on January 25 2013, 4:17PM
Mexican-American preschoolers start school way behind their white counterparts. But new research is showing that their social skills are fully developed and robust by the time they start school and are indistinguishable from their white peers.
Topics: /NOW Blog, Schools & Youth
A Plan to Serve Homeless Youth in a State With the Largest Need
by Jamilah King on January 17 2013, 8:40AM
California accounts for 30 percent of the nation’s homelessness each year. A new effort is underway to address the youth in that group by not lumping them all together.
Topics: Schools & Youth
Study Finds Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Among Fifth-Graders Across Country
by Jorge Rivas on August 23 2012, 2:15PM
Black children and Latino children fared worse than white children in almost every category.
Topics: /NOW Blog, Schools & Youth
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Topics: Akiba Solomon
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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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