As national and local community leaders, we are considering how we both protect and build on the progress we have made to expand opportunity for our communities over the past eight years, and enlist all corners of our community to tackle the persistent challenges we still face.
The event, which happened last month, was aimed at empowering our youth to read and see themselves as heroes.
Plus, FBI director believes there’s no proof of "epidemic" police violence against Black people and the nation's high school graduation rate hits record high of 83.2 percent.
In what has become known as "The Talk," which parents give Black boys about police encounters, I also teach my daughter to respect authority, but that she should never allow her rights to be violated.
According to author Monique Morris, Black girls make up 16 percent of American school students, but account for over 33 percent of school arrests.
The benefits of exercise with regards to weight loss does not affect Black girls in the way that it does their White counterparts, according to research published…
