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Hello everyone My name is Sheldon Smith. I am 23yrs old and I have one child and her name is Jada Smith. I was born and raised in the Woodlawn area. Im also in college and my major is Social Work. Im a Social Work in Woodlawn. I am the Founder a Fatherhood Initiative called the Dovetail Project which teaches fathers age 15 to 24 Parenting Skills, Life Skills, Felony Street Law, and Parenting Rights. I am also a fellow for the International Youth Foundation and Youth Action Net. My job is to open eyes and change the world with Black Youth Project.

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May 24, 2012 at 10:40am
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Who Will Stand Up For The Rights Of Those Without A Voice?

I’m a Community Organizer and I work with fathers who are younger or the same age as me.  When I’m at community meetings or sitting around people who make decisions as to what goes on in the community, I always see and hear  accomplished people making very broad and generalizing statements about the youth of [...]

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May 17, 2012 at 9:03am
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Seeing More Than The Hood

Yesterday I ran across some of the guys I used to run the streets with and we were talking about if anyone was taking any trips for Memorial Day. It was astonishing to me that one of them said that they had never been out of Chicago before. That comment wasn’t surprising but it still [...]

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May 3, 2012 at 8:53am
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YouTube: The Good, Bad, and Ugly

For too many of us, YouTube is the new video encyclopedia; if you need to learn something new or just find different ways to do anything YouTube is the place to go. YouTube has become so huge that more videos are uploaded on YouTube in 60 days than 3 major television stations have created in [...]

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April 26, 2012 at 10:12am
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DO YOU KNOW HOW TO LOVE?

Some people don’t know what it means to love because love is taught from one person to another. I want to see us build a better world for each other. I always speak about the help for men and their needs but what about our women?  It hurt me to see so many young women [...]

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April 19, 2012 at 10:05am
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Is Section 8 fulfilling its purpose today?

A little history about Section 8, it was started in the great depression to address the country housing crisis. In the 1960s and 1970s, the federal government created subsidy programs to increase the production of low-income housing and to help families pay their rent.   This subsidy program, the predecessor to the modern program, was not a [...]

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April 12, 2012 at 8:39am
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The Black On Black Violence Must Stop

When will we stop killing our on people? The Black on Black murdering must stop! When will we stand up and say enough is enough? The police can’t fix the problem, we as people have to fix the problem or watch our children be murdered in the street.

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April 5, 2012 at 9:12am
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Finding Your Roots

The history of where you ancestors come from can bring a vision as to why you are the person you are. I ran across a television show on PBS that is titled “Finding Your Roots with historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. Finding Your Roots examines the histories and family genealogies of a number of well-known [...]

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March 22, 2012 at 10:25am
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African American Fathers Stepping UP!

Tuesday March 20, 2012 was the start of The Dovetail Project. This is my 5th class of fathers and 61 fathers have graduated from the program out of two years. This was a big day for me and I was wondering if all my hard work paid off. I was recruiting on Facebook, in the [...]

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March 15, 2012 at 9:51am
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Stereotypes Continue to Plague Our Black Males

It is so mind boggling to me to hear about a 17year old boy killed for walking down the street and being black. This happened in a Florida gated community when the Captain of the Neighborhood Watch called the police on a young black male and said he look suspicious. By the time the police [...]

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March 1, 2012 at 10:29am
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Parents -VS- Teachers

The Chicago Public school system is broken.  Our youth are failing, dropping out, or can’t graduate out of school. This is a problem because our youth are being taken to jail, killed, not employed or joining a gang. Most people I hear from blame teachers and not the parent for their child failing school. I [...]

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