Youth

Lately a great deal of our story headlines have included the troubling challenges that our Black youth face everyday in school and personal life. The…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the launch of a national public education campaign to prevent and reduce tobacco use among multicultural youth…

WE DO MATTER In what has been touted at another horrendous weekend of violence in Chicago there’s much to be said about last week. Black…

Keeping youth offenders in adult prisons increases their risk of suicide, sexual assault and returning to prison, and is the result of “antiquated laws,” according…

As a native Chicagoan, first lady Michelle Obama says violence in the city is "personal". On Wed., Apr 10 Obama returned home to give an emotional plea to civic leaders. Standing alongside Mayor Rahm Emanuel, she urged them to help raise $50 million to fund anti-violence youth programs throughout the city. “I am here t...