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America’s Invisible Children

The front (intake and court proceedings) and side (alternatives to incarceration) of the JJ system need work when it comes to Latino...

Opinion

A ‘Five-Star’ President Who Happens to be Bi-Racial

On Jan. 20, I joined millions of Americans and millions more around the world to watch the inauguration of our 44th...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Successful Transition to Adolescence Begins at Home

Program: Strong African American Families (SAAF) Organization: Center for Family Research, University of Georgia Type of Evaluation: Researchers examined whether this intervention,...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Muslim American Youth: Understanding Hyphenated Identities Through Multiple Methods

Selcuk R. Sirin, Michelle FineNew York University Press243 pages. $70 ($23 paperback). To discover how the post-9/11 atmosphere affects diverse American-born...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Lawyers for Immigrant Youth

Microsoft Corp., actress Angelina Jolie and 25 law firms and corporate law departments have formed an organization to assist the approximately 8,000...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

No More Labels for Me

LA Youth, Los Angeles I was in seventh grade when people started to get curious about what I was. Most kids...

Number of Young Homicide Victims Rises

Young black males are being murdered, and being arrested for murder, at a far higher rate than they were in 2002, according...

Burns Releases First in Series of DMC Reports

The San Francisco-based Burns Institute (BI) has released the first installment of “Adoration of the Question,” the first in a series of...

Feedback on DMC, JJ Reform Stories

We received several letters about a package on juvenile justice reform that appeared in our print edition (“A Tale of Two Reforms,”...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Seeing Beyond Ourselves

Age 20NEW YOUTH CONNECTIONS, NEW YORK American history lessons teach us that presidential candidates have, until now, always been white men. So...

News

Discontent on DMC

[Correction: Because of an editing error, a sidebar story to November’s “Tale of Two Reforms,” titled “Discontent on DMC,” referred to a...

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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...