Links
Below you will find a list of helpful resources, research and organizations:
- The Masculinity Project: Black Community in Focus is an interactive multimedia project designed to engage the black community in a discussion about, “What it means to be a man?” but particularly “What it means to be a black man?
- The Dellums Commission’s report about men of color, A Way Out, aims to create partnerships that “expand thye life paths” of young men of color via stronger communities, and public policy reform.
- NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund has a section dedicated to educational justice that focuses on educational equity, school integration and the school to prison pipeline.
- NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund report: “Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline”
- The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy is a think tank/non-profit which has a program called Drum Major Scholars that helps put activism into policy via focused young people “from under-represented communities” and making connections with public policy makers.
- The Education Week website calls itself the “site of record” for education issues and often tackles education issues regarding under-served populations several times a week.
- Education Commission of the States offers a State Report Card for public education as it relates to black males in a 96-page report from 2006
- The Schott Foundation’s report, “Given Half a Chance: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males”. The Schott Foundation’s mission is “to develop and strengthen a broad-based and representative movement to achieve fully-resourced quality pre-K-12 public education.”
- UCLA’s The Civil Rights Project has a biweekly online newsletter for updates on the status of integration in our nation’s schools.
- DiversityCentral.com is a resource site for “cultural diversity” and statistics and has information describing the current U.S. prison system’s population and the disparities that exist therein — “Who’s who in the U.S. Prison System?: Statistics on Racial Discrepancies”.
- The U.S. Department of Justice has more official statistics regarding prison populations, sentencing and the like at
- The Harlem Children’s Zone aims to help poor parents raise smart children in order for these children to become competitive in America.
- Why Boys Fail website concentrates on the educational welfare of boys in general.
- The Boys Project concentrates on the educational welfare of boys in general.
- Black Male Outreach and Education, BMORE at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, organizes Duke students to help educate Durham middle and high school students culturally and academically.
- Legacy Roundtable in Inland Empire, California, provides more than 100 hours of Algebra and Geometry study to young black male students.
- 21st Century Foundation of New York City “provides grants and encourages philanthropic giving for strategies and programs geared toward issues affecting black males”.
- The Atlanta-based 100 Black Men of America, Inc. is “committed to the intellectual development of youth…”. As one of the largest male mentoring groups in the United States, it has local organizations nationwide -
- Report: In Illinois, more black men in prison than college - C.L.I.C.K. for Justice and Equality is an agent of communication alerting our social community of injustices and inequalities among the socially disadvantaged and disenfranchised individuals.
- National Association to Save Young Black Men is a Web-based organization dedicated to saving young black men via education and other avenues of empowerment.