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Funds for mental health budgets were slashed a combined $4 billion from 2008 to 2012. In the wake of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School last December experts have watched that trend sharply reverse.
The process of destroying Sandy Hook Elementary School -- where last year Adam Lanza massacred 20 first-grade students and six teachers and staff -- began earlier in the year and is now nearly complete.
Earlier this week Buckshot and DJ Evil Dee, founding members of the legendary, Brooklyn-based hip-hop group Black Moon, joined forces with the Brooklyn Historical Society and Brooklyn Bodega to discuss the 20th anniversary of their debut album, “Enta Da Stage,” as well as to talk about hip-hop's unprecedented popularity and ever-increasing influence on today’s young people.
For young residents of Red Hook, N.Y. the chance to keep their record clean, or clear it, can make a world of difference in their future.
The New York Bureau recently compiled profiles on three young New Yorkers with one thing in common: a history of time spent in lock-down facilities.
In a bid to decongest the nation’s overpopulated prisons, the Obama administration has proposed leniency for certain drug cases.
The streets are about to become safer for black and Latino teens who have been increasingly subjected to routine stop and frisks by the NYPD.
“As the so-called ‘war on drugs’ enters its fifth decade, we need to ask whether it, and the approaches that comprise it, have been truly effective,” Holder stated.
The Trayvon Martin Invitational became a symbol of solidarity for a community battered by the killings of two unarmed, young black men.
I knew I didn’t look good, but after a day of ice packs and Netflix, I was getting used to it. The curve of skin where my nose met my face had been cracked open. A bright purple crescent bloomed across my puffy cheek, swooping out from the inner corner of my right eye. “A girl did that to you?” my coworkers asked when I came back to the office, wincing at the sight. “Why?”
It was the same question I’d asked in the emergency room, waiting to find out if my nose was broken, and the same question I tried to answer a year later while reporting a story on girls in the juvenile justice system.