Did someone confess to the murder of Kendrick Johnson? I hope investigators are one step closer to determining what happened to Johnson. The 17-year-old high…

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President Barack Obama’s (pictured center) new “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative, aimed at addressing employment and education challenges for young men of color, has been lauded…

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…

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A new study about skin bias shows that people remember intelligent Black males as having had lighter skin. RELATED: UPDATED: See Doctor Explain Why Racism…

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Half of all Black males in the United States have been behind bars by age 23, according to a new study published by academic journal…

Chris Brown’s in trouble again? Given his recent history, that’s hardly a surprise. In his latest encounter, after partying into the wee hours in a…

By the time they enter kindergarten, 1 out of 4 African-American boys in California expect to never be successful, according to last year’s findings by…

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Roland Martin talks with Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Defense Fund about what steps need to be taken to keep black males off…

The social net for high school dropouts is gone forever. When the manufacturing base in the U.S. was strong, a young man could drop out of high school and safely land at a factory with an $18 an hour job. Today, young African American males are dropping out of high school at the highest rate […]