Study: Black boys more accepted into white cliques than black girls
A study on the experiences of black students in suburban schools has found that black boys have an easier time fitting in than black girls. Black boys can use racial performance to seem tough, cool and...
View Article13-year-old boys suspended from school for playing with toy gun in front of home
Like any average 13-year-olds, Khalid Caraballo, Aidan Clark and two other boys like to play with toy guns. Now their actions have led to an extended suspension from school. A neighbor, whose son was...
View ArticleThree black students arrested for waiting at bus stop
Three Rochester, NY high school students were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct while waiting for a school bus to pick them up for a scrimmage basketball game. The boys were standing with...
View Article“Not White People”
This past winter, as a student teacher in a kindergarten class on the South Side of Chicago, I got the pleasure of hearing one of my students articulate the centuries old matter of black humanity...
View ArticleStudy: Public, police view black youth as older, less innocent than whites
New research released by the American Psychological Association reveals that both members of the public and law enforcement officials view black youth, particularly black boys, as less innocent than...
View ArticlePromoting literacy: Florida barbershop hands out books to young customers
If you go to Royal Touch Barbershop in Riviera Beach, Florida, you’ll get more than a haircut if you’re a young boy. Reggie Ross who owns the shop has boys and men reading books on various subjects...
View ArticleFamily Accuses Long Island School for Cover Up in Brutal Attack
A 16-year-old high school student’s family is filing court papers on the premise that a Long Island school failed to intervene a racially motivated attack by a white student, and the school covered up...
View ArticleStudents Who Forced a U-Lock on a Black Student’s Neck Won’t Be Charged With...
In 2013, three students were charged and found guilty in a hate crime at San Jose State University where an African-American freshman had a bike lock around his neck of misdemeanor battery, however on...
View ArticleNew ‘Melanites’ Doll Line Offers Different Images Of Black Boyhood
As we’ve seen through the influx of data and media coverage on Black boys, they often lose their innocence at the hands of someone else, someone who has stereotyped and criminalized their Blackness...
View ArticleThis Powerful Poem Tells The Story of Black Boys Who ‘Die Easy’
The prevalence of violence against young Black people has become a constant phenomenon in American life. While Black folx of all genders face unique struggles with anti-Blackness, police surveillance,...
View ArticleMore role models for Black boys in school won’t fix anything if we continue...
By Brittani McNeill It is common knowledge that Black children are on the low end of an ever widening racial achievement gap in this country. It’s even becoming more widely acknowledged that systemic...
View ArticleThe internet, as a digital looking glass, can normalize violence for Black boys
by Donnie Moreland I’m entering my apartment lot, around 9:45 PM, having returned from the gym. My vision often obscured around this time, I’m hurried to brake as two figures creep along in front of...
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