by Tina Fletcher | Aug 8, 2020 | Articles
For Black students in America, having a same-race social studies teacher is extremely rare. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), social studies teachers make up just 7% of the entire teacher workforce. And of all social studies teachers,...
by Sharon Cornelissen and Alexander Hermann | Aug 8, 2020 | Articles
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Black and Hispanic households have been more likely to lose income and experience difficulty making rent or mortgage payments, according to our analysis of data from the Census Bureau’s new weekly Household Pulse Survey (HPS). Our...
by Blackboysincrisis.com | Aug 8, 2020 | Articles
Jun 24, 2020 – These police brutality bonds quite literally allow banks and wealthy investors to profit from police violence. This is a transfer of wealth from communities–especially over-policed communities of color–to Wall Street and wealthy investors, and it...
by Blackboysincrisis.com | Aug 8, 2020 | Articles
Since 2008, blackboysincrisis.com has served as the world’s premiere website for information and solution-oriented strategies on the plight of young Black males in America. It is an online educational resource for activists, teachers, parents, policy-makers, students,...
by Dionne J. Jones, PhD, corresponding author Aria D. Crump, ScD, and Jacqueline J. Lloyd, PhD | Jan 18, 2018 | Articles
Accumulating evidence shows that people of color suffer disproportionately from a number of health and social conditions as compared to their White counterparts. Numerous studies related to the overrepresentation of people of color among those with HIV infection,...
by ESTHER CANTY-BARNES | Jan 18, 2018 | Articles
Studies show that black boys have a greater risk of suspension. On Wednesday, July 6, the four-year-old daughter of Diamond Reynolds witnessed the killing of Philando Castile by a Minnesota police officer. She and her mother sat in close proximity to Castile when he...