Olympic Swimmer Dives Into Teaching
Today Show | February 3, 2011 Olympic Swimmer, Cullen Jones, learned to swim after a near-death drowning. Now he is giving swim lessons to kids through a child-focused swimming initiative, Make a Splash.
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Why take the pledge?
Far too many Black youth continue to be demonized, criminalized and murdered.
Enough is enough!
In response to this intensifying crisis, the Black Youth Project (BYP) has launched “The Pledge.”
With “The Pledge,” we are asking individuals and organizations to close ranks around black youth and make a commitment to take action and fight with black youth as they confront a relentless crisis. We at the BYP believe that each person can make a difference by doing something!
By taking The Pledge we not only articulate our concern about black youth, but symbolically unite our voices with others who will work to confront this crisis.
If we each take action, whether it is starting a group, signing a petition, or mentoring a young person in your neighborhood, then we all become a part of the solution.
Stand With Black Youth!
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Project SYNCERE Makes Engineering Fun for Black Students
NBC Cleveland | February 7, 2011 CHICAGO – Project SYNCERE, an innovative program in Chicago, is giving young African American students a jump start in math and science by making engineering concepts fun. A lesson on velocity taught by racing wooden vehicles with CDs for wheels. The prize isn’t money, but it’s just as rich — an education. [...]
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