I truly won't know how successful this project is until several years from now, but I am confident that it has already helped our students — and it will continue to do so as more teachers and counselors become educated on the issues
facing young men of color today.
The impetus for my capstone was the College Board's 2010 report The Educational Crisis
Facing Young Men of Color, which revealed that a disturbingly large number of young men of color (defined here as African - American, Hispanic / Latino, and Southeast Asian) end up unemployed, incarcerated, or dead at an early age.
Not exact matches
In 2014, Shelton was tasked with setting up My Brother's Keeper, a corporate - and foundation - backed initiative launched by President Obama to address the «opportunity gaps» and «achievement gaps»
faced in particular by boys and
young men of color.
I know firsthand the struggles
young men of color face in this nation, and I know how challenging it can be to both lead one's own life on the right path while also guiding others in that same direction.
This event featured speakers from organizations including the Ali Forney Center, Hetrick - Martin Institute, Depressed Black Gay
Men, Caribbean Equality Project, Audre Lorde Project and others with the goal
of raising awareness about the challenges and barriers
faced by LGBTQ
young persons
of color.
My Brother's Keeper refers to President Obama's initiative, launched in 2014, to address persistent opportunity gaps
faced by boys and
young men of color.
Karapetyan and her colleagues are all too aware
of the uphill path most
of their students
face, particularly
young men of color.
My Brother's Keeper is a national initiative that addresses persistent opportunity gaps
faced by
young men of color.
If you live in the Los Angeles area and would like to learn more about the educational issues
facing many
young men of color, the Assembly Select Committee on Boys and Men of Color will be holding a public hearing on Friday, March 21, on the implications of LCFF for this subset of studen
men of color, the Assembly Select Committee on Boys and Men of Color will be holding a public hearing on Friday, March 21, on the implications of LCFF for this subset of stud
color, the Assembly Select Committee on Boys and
Men of Color will be holding a public hearing on Friday, March 21, on the implications of LCFF for this subset of studen
Men of Color will be holding a public hearing on Friday, March 21, on the implications of LCFF for this subset of stud
Color will be holding a public hearing on Friday, March 21, on the implications
of LCFF for this subset
of students.
Young men and students
of color face harsher discipline and far greater suspensions beginning as early as preschool.
Improving college readiness rates, especially for
young men of color, requires an understanding
of the challenges they
face, and
of the levers that might serve to increase college readiness and...
Improving college readiness rates, especially for
young men of color, requires an understanding
of the challenges they
face, and
of the levers that might serve to increase college readiness and enrollment.
Other community school initiatives also have taken up the call
of My Brother's Keeper — to address persistent opportunity gaps
faced by boys and
young men of color so all
young people can reach their full potential.
Most
of the slaves taken in England were sold to farmers in the wild northern isles, or to Ireland, or sent back across the sea to the Danish lands, but some, I learned, were taken to the big slave markets in Frankia and a few were shipped south to a place where there was no winter and where
men with
faces the
color of scorched wood would pay good money for
men and even better money for
young women.
He had been working all
of his life in a style he evolved as a
young man which at the same time was changing the
face of the art world: Abstract Expressionism (characterized briefly as a form
of painting which emphasized gesture in an effort to define the flatness and realness
of color and shape as a more integrated realization
of the painted space).