This week, NYPD announced the city's largest gun bust ever, seizing more than 250 illegal firearms and arresting 19 people, New York Daily News reports. Two men were the gun runners for two separate operations, bringing weapons up from North and South Carolina. Seventeen others were... Read more...
The American Civil Liberties Union welcomed Attorney General Eric Holder to 2013 upon news that he would use a high-profile speech to announce major policy shifts in the Justice Department's federal sentencing and enforcement arenas. This was a shift that was a full four-year term of Preside... Read more...
Donda's House, Inc. a new non-profit organization established to honor the educational legacy of Dr. Donda West, the mother of Kanye West, by implementing arts and literature experiences that transform youth, will partner with the ARK of St. Sabina to offer a pilot youth education and training p... Read more...
In Rochester, N.Y. 9% of young Black males graduate from high school, 20% in Detroit, 24% in Philadelphia, 28% in New York City, 39% in Chicago and 41% in Los Angeles, and about 50% of Black males in America finished high school with their graduating class in 2010, according to a 2012 report fro... Read more...
Sunday’s rioting in Huntington Beach, California is sparking a national conversation about white youth and violence. It’s about time. I know this is a touchy subject. Some of my best friends are white, and some of them have teenage or twenty-something children. And of course I don’t favor... Read more...