Sentences with phrase «urban black youth»

While low - slung pants are associated with urban black youth, Alekhuogie complicates our perception by not revealing the racial identity of the person wearing the clothes.»

Not exact matches

And having organizations sprout up such as Black Lives Matter, Campaign Zero, and the youth organizations of the NAACP, and the Urban League, and The National Action Network is very encouraging.

Ought we to be surprised that black youths isolated from the labor market, marginalized by decrepit urban schools, devalued by alienating ideals of beauty and targeted by an unprecedented drug invasion exhibit high rates of crime and teen - age pregnancy?

When black and Hispanic leaders bemoaned the lack of a promised «urban agenda,» Cuomo appointed a number of minorities to administrative posts and created a jobs fund for inner - city youth.

Her schedule can read like a map of multiculturalism in New York: opening a 24 - hour center for L.G.B.T.Q. youth in Queens, touring an urban farm in East Harlem, a Hispanic Heritage event at Gracie Mansion one night and a transgender theater performance another, opening a substance use clinic at the Gay Men's Health Crisis headquarters in Manhattan, attending a reading of writer James Baldwin at a center for black culture — all since late September.

From 1994 to 2003, Price served as president of the National Urban League, where he launched a national campaign to raise the academic achievement of black youth.

Black youth rising: Activism and racial healing in urban America.

Cleage captures the mores, culture, and rhythm of black urban youth and the romantic tensions between mature black adults as she weaves contemporary issues into a love story.

KIRKLAND ARTS CENTER GALLERY: 620 Market St. Black - and - white photographs by youth involved in the Seattle - based Youth in Focus, a program that enables urban teens to experience their worlds through photogryouth involved in the Seattle - based Youth in Focus, a program that enables urban teens to experience their worlds through photogrYouth in Focus, a program that enables urban teens to experience their worlds through photography.

AWARDS Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society 2006 — current Mississippi State University Honor Society Program August 2001 — May 2002 Mentor for urban youth (chemistry classes) January 2008 — July 2008 National Society of Black Engineers, NSBE National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) August 2005 — current Mayor's Youth Council of Clinton, MS August 1996 — Mayyouth (chemistry classes) January 2008 — July 2008 National Society of Black Engineers, NSBE National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) August 2005 — current Mayor's Youth Council of Clinton, MS August 1996 — MayYouth Council of Clinton, MS August 1996 — May 2001

As a supplement to APT Validation Study II, the research aims for Validation Study III are to (1) generate master scores for video clips of youth program observations without cultural bias, (2) create more tailored and targeted online training and anchor systems, and (3) eliminate significant differences in certification passing rates between groups with different cultural vantage points (i.e., Black vs. White raters, urban vs. non-urban program experiences).

Psychosocial, alcohol / other drug use, and delinquency differences between urban Black and White male high risk youth