Youth Today

Unaccompanied Children in the United States

Vera Institute of Justice Each year, thousands of children are separated from their parents after deportation proceedings, but volunteer legal services for...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood

Ta-Nehisi CoatesSpiegel & Grau/Random House227 pages. $22.95. This brilliant memoir reflects on the challenges faced by two African-American brothers growing up. Ta-Nehisi...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Parents Spared in Immigration Raids

A federal raid on a kosher meat plant last month resulted in hundreds of arrests of allegedly illegal immigrants, but in contrast...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

YouthLink Online

http://www.hispaniclink.org/youthlink/about.htm This site, hosted by the Hispanic Link Journalism Foundation, publishes articles, poems, personal stories, plays and art work of English- and...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The Trouble with Black Boys … and Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education

Pedro A. NogueraJossey-Bass306 pages. $24.95. While researchers disagree about the reasons for the struggles of young African-American males, here an urban sociologist...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Paul Robeson Academic International School of Excellence (PRAISE)

Stand-up Kids: The PRAISE Academy helps boys lift themselves. Johns Hopkins University Baltimore(410) 467-1605www.paulrobesonacademy.org Objective: Develop the academic and social skills of...

X%$*! Box Live

These screen names from XBox Live reveal one way players express racism. So you think you’re providing constructive activities for kids by...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Immigrant Influx to Chicago Suburbs Spawns Foreign Language Schools for Kids

The Chicago Tribune A growing immigrant population has spurred an upswing in the number of weekend foreign language schools in the Chicago...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Redefining What It Means to Be Black in America

National Public Radio (NPR) Author and NPR senior correspondent Juan Williams says that “one of the most damaging forces tearing at young...

► Reports

Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America’s Children

The Urban Institute With federal immigration raids on the rise, this report examines what happens to the children of adults who are...

► Reports

Repeat Teen Childbearing: Differences Across States and by Race and Ethnicity

Child Trends Although the teen birth rate reached a record low in 2004, nearly 20 percent of teen births that year were...

Research

More than Homework, a Snack and Basketball: Afterschool Programs as an Oasis of Hope for Black Parents in Four Cities

The Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) Available at http://www.baeo.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/mottSummary.pdf Black parents have a deep understanding of the need for high-quality after-school...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Pubs and Videos for November 2007

AFTER SCHOOL Afterschool Style in Practice:25 Skill-Building Meetings for StaffTamara Sniad, Claudia Weisburd, Sarah MelloCenter for Afterschool and Community Education/Foundations Inc.182 pages....

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Youth Work’s Immigration Movement

By Ed Finkel The Boys & Girls Club of West Georgia, after witnessing a 30 percent increase in Latino participants in three...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

The Jena Six and the Big Picture

The case of the “Jena Six” in Louisiana has drawn public attention to the disproportionate treatment of racial groups in juvenile justice...

Opinion

The New Black-on-Black Racism

When it comes to slurring young African-Americans as promiscuous, violent, and stupid, influential African-American leaders and commentators make radio clown Don Imus...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

What About Hip-Hop?

New Youth Connections, New York The firing of radio personality Don Imus for referring to the Rutgers University women’s basketball team as...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Words Can Hurt in Any Language

New Youth Connections, New York When I heard that radio host Don Imus had used the terms “nappy-headed ho’s” to refer to...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Immigration Raids Protested

While most of the child welfare field stays mum about the havoc sometimes created for youth and youth-serving agencies when adults are...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Deportations Strand Young U.S. Citizens

The Chicago Tribune Since the deportation of their mother last year as a “criminal alien,” 22-year-old University of Texas senior Luissana Santibanez...