Nicole Franklin decided that it was time that young Black males had a chance to communicate their feelings about love. So she headed to one of the most unloving cities in the U.S. – Camden, N.J. a crime-ridden city just outside of Philadelphia. While there she filmed boys 9-13 years old to ask them questions […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A malfunctioning damper diverted heat to the top level of a two-tier observation unit where a city official told The Associated Press a mentally ill, homeless veteran inmate “basically baked to death” in a cell that was at least 100 degrees last month, the head of New York City’s jails system […]
Did someone confess to the murder of Kendrick Johnson? I hope investigators are one step closer to determining what happened to Johnson. The 17-year-old high school student from Valdosta, Georgia was found in a rolled-up mat in the Lowndes High School gymnasium on January 11, 2013. Investigators with the sheriff’s office ruled his death accidental, […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Brown will spend another month in jail after a judge said Monday he was told the singer made troubling comments in rehab about being good at using guns and knives. Brown, 24, was arrested on Friday after he was dismissed from a Malibu facility where he was receiving treatment for […]
“I’m reaching out to some of America’s leading foundations and corporations on a new initiative to help more young men of color facing especially tough odds to stay on track and reach their full potential.” – President Barack Obama President Barack Obama is determined to empower young black men. And today, America knows it, too. […]
For iPhone users: Yesterday at the White House I met a 19-year-old young man named James Adams who has a commute unfamiliar to most high school students. He says when he was in school he woke up every morning put on his vest and coat and went to school. It wasn’t a fancy, fashionable vest. […]
On the night of February 26, 2012, 17-year old Trayvon Martin, a hoodie-wearing high school junior, was walking through a neighborhood in Sanford, Florida when a night watchman, George Zimmerman confronted him. Zimmerman shot and killed the unarmed teen, claiming self-defense. After a controversial trial, Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter. His defense […]
Black history can’t be made unless there are black men who educated and alive to make it. As Black males fall further and further behind educationally, they also fall further and further behind socially and financially. A new documentary 13 years in the making, American Promise, premieres on PBS on Monday, February 3 at 10 […]
Half of all Black males in the United States have been behind bars by age 23, according to a new study published by academic journal…
Chris Brown’s in trouble again? Given his recent history, that’s hardly a surprise. In his latest encounter, after partying into the wee hours in a D.C. nightclub, Brown allegedly got into a confrontation with two young men who wanted to take a picture. Accused of throwing both gay slurs and ‘bows that broke one man’s […]
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…
Roland Martin talks with Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Defense Fund about what steps need to be taken to keep black males off the “prison track” and in the classrooms.
