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2013 Mass Black Male Graduation at Chicago State University
Sharp drop in black male enrollment in med schools
BY FREDDIE ALLEN, NNPA WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS May 07, 2013 WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Fewer Black males were enrolled in the first year of medical schools last year than 32 years ago, a trend that, if left uncorrected, could hamper efforts to provide quality health care to underserved communities, according to a top officer in...
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Save Our Sons: A Call to Action
By Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., Associate Professor of Education, Langston University (www.drmattlynch.com) 11/12/2012 Education is the cornerstone of success. Those who are educated have more opportunity, tend to make better choices, and will go on to teach their children to do likewise. Those who are educated tend to give back to their community more...
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In Wisconsin, mass incarceration of black males must stop
Opinion High Incarceration rates drive high unemployment rates and high unemployment rates drive high incarceration rates By John Pawasarat May 11, 2013 4:00 p.m. Prison time is the most serious barrier to employment for Wisconsin male workers, making ex-offender populations the most difficult to place and sustain in full-time employment. When driver’s licensing...
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Activists working to find solutions for youth unemployment
BY SAEED SHABAZZ -STAFF WRITER MAY 2, 2013 NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) – Youth unemployment has reached 11.7 percent nationally, according to the U.S. Dept. of Labor, however, for Black youth, ages 19 to 29 the national number is 20 percent, while 12.6 percent of Latinos in the same age bracket are unemployed. “Young people are finding...
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Vanishing Act: Watching the Teen Summer Job Market Disappear
Andrew Sum and Ishwar Khatiwada, Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University July 5, 2011 Traditionally, a summer job is many teenagers’ first experience in the job market. Yet the past decade has witnessed a significant deterioration in the summer job market for adolescents ages 16-19. Despite the persistence of low teen summer...
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Black Star Project Hosts “Educate or Die” College Fair
Chicago Youth and Parents View Education as a Key Solution to Violence By DR. PETER K. B. ST. JEAN April 15, 2013 Many Chicagoans view improved educational opportunities as a way to solve the city’s issues with violence. These beliefs were very clear when over 1000 young people and their parents participated in the...
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March Madness brings vast graduation gaps
GETTY IMAGES By Derrick S. jackson/GLOBE COLUMNIST MARCH 30, 2013 US Education Secretary Arne Duncan did not dribble around the question when I asked him if collegiate basketball programs with longterm, gross racial disparities in graduation rates should be banned from March Madness. “Where you have insidious gaps, and where there isn’t...
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America Has Lost A Generation Of Black Boys
By Phillip Jackson There is no longer a need for dire predictions, hand-wringing, or apprehension about losing a generation of black boys. It is too late. In education, employment, economics, incarceration, health, housing, and parenting, we have lost a generation of young black men. The question that remains is will we lose the...
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AmeriCorps volunteer Joseph Massenburg shot to death in New Orleans
Ravi Baichwal April 5, 2013 (NEW ORLEANS) (WLS) — The death of a teenager who wanted to dedicate his life to public service is triggering an anti-violence movement after 18-year-old Joseph Massenburg was killed while volunteering with AmeriCorps. His parents, both pastors, are sharing their grief. Those pastors are struggling with the pain...
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