Youth Today
All posts tagged "racism"
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1.6K► ReportsRacial Disparities in Youth Incarceration Persist
The Sentencing Project releases a new report discussing how stark racial disparities in the juvenile justice system remain relatively unchanged even as...
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4.1KGuest Opinion EssayMassachusetts Must Focus On Root Causes Of Gun Violence: Racial, Economic Disparity
The year 2020 will be remembered as a year of great upheaval in the United States, with so many lives and communities...
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1.6KGuest Opinion EssayWhat a Biden-Harris Administration Means For Gun Violence Epidemic
Although public health experts have rightly been focused on the COVID-19 pandemic this year, America has been in the grips of another...
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2.5KGuest Opinion EssayHow To Chart An Anti-oppression Path For Your Youth Organization
As difficult as it may seem, there is a more equitable, anti-oppression path forward for youth-centered organizations. An anti-oppression organizational orientation recognizes,...
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6.3KGuest Opinion EssayHistorical Fantasies That Hide Racism In Textbooks Threaten Our Future
While our nation struggles to overcome systemic racism, one of the hidden roots of this issue lies within our school systems. The...
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3.2KGuest Opinion EssayWashington State Is On Pathway To Change Institutional Racism In Foster Care System
In Washington state, young children birth to 3 make up 42% of dependency cases filed in 2018. Of all children who go...
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727GrantsCommunity Health and Healthcare Racial Equity Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Health Equity, Community, Healthcare, Institutional Racism, Healthcare Access | Amount: $300,000 | Deadline: Oct. 7, 2020 (LOI)
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936GrantsRacism and Racial Justice Education Project Support Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Education, Racism, Black Lives Matter, Educator Support, Racial Justice | Amount: Up to $30,000 | Deadline: Oct. 22, 2020
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1.4K► ReportsThe Latinx Data Gap in the Youth Justice System
A new report analyzes racial and ethnic data at state-level youth justice agencies, documenting how inconsistent data categories and reporting result in...
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1.9KNewsHigh School Students Call For Racial Equity Focus, For Adults to Listen
Young people across the country are returning to school during a global pandemic after a summer that dramatically highlighted racial inequality. Under...
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3.6KNewsAlabama Activists Say Defunding Police Rooted In Legacy Of Southern Organizing
Black freedom fighters in Alabama once changed this country. Speaking onstage in Kelly Ingram Park on Juneteenth, Celestine Hood, a woman who...
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1.8KGuest Opinion EssayIn Demanding Justice For Black People, Are We Sacrificing the Peace of Black Youth?
We met at Freedom Plaza. This was my first protest since the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. People of all...
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952GrantsOakland Social and Racial Justice Organization Rapid Response Support Grants
GRANT FOCUS: COVID-19, Social Justice, Social Change, Arts/Culture, Community Organizing, Oakland | Amount: Up to $10,000 | Deadline: Sept. 15, 2020
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4.3KNewsWashington ‘State-raised’ Inmates From Foster Care Urge Better Youth Support
Inevitable. That’s how winding up in prison felt for a group of former foster youth — now adults who are imprisoned at...
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2.9KGuest Opinion EssayHow White Service Providers Can ‘Do the Work’ With People of Color
I am neither a man nor a person of color, but this past year I’ve worked in a program for men of...
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5.5KGuest Opinion EssayTo Solve Youth Homelessness We Must Make Race Part of the Equation
In June 2015, Houston declared the end of veteran homelessness and turned its focus to ending youth homelessness by 2020.
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2.3KFrom the BureausNew York Theater Stages ‘Antigone in Ferguson’
The Greek play “Antigone” tells the story of a defiant woman sentenced to death by a king who refuses to practice mercy....
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1.9KGuest Opinion EssayNetflix Show an Inside Look at Power of Prosecutors, Media in Youth Justice Cases
Netflix’s highly anticipated limited series, Ava DuVernay's "When They See Us" is now out. It chronicles the story of the infamous Central...
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4.9KGuest Opinion EssayDecades After Media, Child Welfare Got ‘Crack Babies’ Wrong, Damage to Women of Color Lives On
Editorial writers rarely do their own reporting. Most of the time they comment on what reporters for their publications have found or...
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1.5K► ReportsSpeaking Truth and Acting w/ Integrity: Confronting Challenges of Campus Racial Climate
The American Council on Education outlines the effective methods and lessons learned in the confrontation of college campus racial issues by using...
