Youth Summit: Since Trayvon's Death, What Should We Be Telling Young Black Youth? (618 hits)
Youth Summit: Since Trayvon's Death, What Should We Be Telling Young Black Youth? Streaming Live August 9-10, 2013 This meeting is designed to bring together the community resources, spiritual resources and legal resources to provide direction for young males. It is my desire to provide a forum to discuss racial injustice, social prejudice and how to effectively deal with them. Further, this meeting will equip young males with appropriate behavior responses to life most challenging moments. We will dissect the black male experience and provide wisdom for the journey. Making the aware of the world they must confront... We are divested of our innocence ... We do not live in a race neutral world..... How to interact with the police..Rates...incarceration ...suspended.....expelled...suspicions
PFAW Foundation: Young People For Supports Florida Dream Defenders' Courageous Sit-In
Arriving at the Florida Capitol just a few days after George Zimmerman was acquitted, the group of 60 young people known as the Dream Defenders is pushing for a special legislative session to take up a Trayvon Martin Civil Rights Act which would repeal the state's Stand Your Ground law and address racial profiling, the school-to prison pipeline, and more. Among the many young people in Gov. Scott's office is Dream Defenders leader Phil Agnew, a 2005 graduate of our affiliate PFAW Foundation's Young People For (YP4) leadership development program, as well as eight to ten other current or former YP4 Fellows.