Sometimes, Your Job Comes Home With You by Pendarvis Harshaw   7-06-2010 4:00 (EST)

On Wednesday June 30th NPR aired this story I produced on Oscar Grant. On Thursday, July 1st, I made this video about businesses in downtown Oakland, CA preparing for threat of riots after the trial's verdict is released. And on Friday July 2nd, I posted this video of me interviewing Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, and my work for the week was complete.

Can We Remix the Media? by Cheo Tyehimba Taylor   7-06-2010 3:58 (EST)Try this: Google "black man" in the news section of Google's website. Chances are the list of news stories it retrieves will be an assortment of articles that in some degree depict males of African descent as less educated, less responsible, and hyper-violent. On the other end of the spectrum, black males are also represented in the media as comedians, athletes, rappers, irresponsible fathers, etc. Nothing new, right? Wrong. Now we can flip the script and literally change what we see in the media.

Interrupting Violence by David Muhammad    7-06-2010 3:57 (EST)I was asked to sit on a panel with legendary Black filmmaker Robert Townsend and others to view and critique "The Interrupters," a short on Chicago' CeaseFire initiative. CeaseFire is an innovative violence prevention model that has been touted as one of the most effective crime fighting programs in the country. CeaseFire deploys street outreach workers to the most violent, devastated neighborhoods in Chicago to mediate conflicts, stop retaliatory shootings, and gather pertinent intelligence on brewing problems that could lead to further violence. The work is intense and their track record has been remarkable.

Why Healthy Communities Matter by 2025 Campaign   7-06-2010 3:57 (EST)

What makes a community healthy?

That was the question posed to teenagers by Youth UpRising in Oakland, California. The mostly African-American youth responded that it is a place where bullets don't fly, where their friends are not buried before they're old enough to vote, where there are fewer liquor stores than there are grocery stores.

Can Therapy Save Our Youth? by James Morgan   7-06-2010 3:56 (EST)A vision was fulfilled in January 2004 that would mean not only the fulfillment of a dream of three young African American men in the greater Newark, New Jersey area but also a glimmer of hope for a sadly underserved population in the state of New Jersey. The vision is Project 99, a clinical therapy service provider that is literally saving young black lives.

Economic Picture Still Bleak by 2025 Campaign   7-06-2010 3:55 (EST)n June, the official unemployment for Black males stood at 18.4%. This marked an increase from the reported 17.8% in May. Since the beginning of the Great Recession in December 2007 when the Black male unemployment rate was 9.9%, almost the number of unemployed Black men has almost doubled. For Black male teens (ages 16-19), unemployment in June stood at 43.2 %; in December 2007, the unemployment rate for young Black men was 39.4%. These figures were announced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, July 3 and published in the new monthly report, "Black Employment and Unemployment in June 2010" released by the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Labor Research and Education.