Norman Lewis was an influential Harlem painter whose work helped innovate the abstract expressionist style he was best known for. Lewis didn’t achieve mainstream fame…
By now, everyone knows the story of how a teenager in a South Carolina classroom was pulled out of a chair onto the floor by…
The dismal education statistics for young Black men are all too familiar, especially in cities like Camden, New Jersey, where poverty, crime and poor access to…
One summer about a million years ago, when I was 18, I went to community college to take some classes to transfer back to the university…
Former Harlem Globetrotter veteran Kevin “Special K” Daley has moved on from the famed basketball squad after a decade, but he hasn’t stopped inspiring people.…
Last week, the United States Department of Labor released new jobs numbers for September. While Black unemployment decreased slightly, there has been growth in job…
In February, President Barack Obama announced an initiative to respond to the economic, employment, and educational disparities that young men of color face as they enter…
“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…
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…
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…
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…