The dismal education statistics for young Black men are all too familiar, especially in cities like Camden, New Jersey, where poverty, crime and poor access to…
One summer about a million years ago, when I was 18, I went to community college to take some classes to transfer back to the university…
As a mentor of African-American male youth in the community, one of the things I’m constantly looking for is information and resources. But whether…
Last week, the United States Department of Labor released new jobs numbers for September. While Black unemployment decreased slightly, there has been growth in job…
In February, President Barack Obama announced an initiative to respond to the economic, employment, and educational disparities that young men of color face as they enter…
By the time they enter kindergarten, 1 out of 4 African-American boys in California expect to never be successful, according to last year’s findings by…
When I went to the screening of Spike Lee’s movie Malcolm X , Rodney King was sitting in the front row and I was seated next to Alice Walker. At that time he was the proof of what Black men had been saying for so long: The police are trying to kill us unjustly and […]
