AMY GOODMAN: Earlier this year, the Justice Department designated the month of February as the National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. Vice President Biden commended the development, emphasizing, quote, “Teen dating violence is all too common, and ends up leading to vicious and unhealthy cycles for years to come. Our responsibility—as parents, teachers, mentors, and community leaders—is to guide our young people towards respectful relationships free from harassment and abuse; teach them that it’s OK to walk away from a bad situation; and encourage them to speak out when they see a friend in trouble.” Those, the words of Joseph Biden.
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid linked rising unemployment to increased violence against women and girls. Read more...
Gov. Jim Doyle signed the Healthy Youth Act into law Wednesday. The new law requires schools to teach birth control as part of sex education. 
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efforts to troubled black youth by starting a mentoring program to help those in juvenile detention centers transition back into everyday life, a top minister said. 
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Recipient of the 2009 Milken National Educator Award, Newark, NJ based educator, Principal Baruti Kafele draws from his 20 years of experience in teaching Black males and turning around troubled urban schools to explain: 
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British students are unable to concentrate on reading an academic book for study, because the internet is '"rewiring" their brains, a new documentary claims. 
But as tuitions rise, many people are borrowing heavily to pay their bills. Some no doubt view it as "good debt," because an education can lead to a higher salary. But in practice, student loans are one of the most toxic debts, requiring extreme consumer caution and, as Dr. Bisutti learned, responsibility. 
On December 28 and 29, the former Los Angeles drug dealer along with Brother Enoch Muhammad of Hip-Hop Detoxx addressed members of the community in the sister cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Mr. Ross and Hip-Hop Detoxx were invited by Brother Arthur “Silky Slim” Reed, CEO of Stop the Killing, Inc.
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About 3,600 athletes and 1,400 officials from 205 countries and territories, along with famous sports personalities and sports officials, will gather in Singapore. Each country can send only 70 athletes, so they have to choose which sports they want to compete in. But countries such as Australia, China and Germany, along with the Association of National Olympic Committees, have pledged to send their best athletes. 
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Empowerment Saviour Kasukuwere to discuss ways to enhance youth empowerment. 
Microsoft Corp. is donating a technology that it developed to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to assist in finding and removing many of the worst known images of child sexual exploitation from the Internet. The technology, named PhotoDNA, was created by Microsoft Research and helps calculate the distinct characteristics of a digital image to match it to other copies of that same image.
kids to go online without supervision or ground rules is like allowing them to explore a major metropolitan area by themselves. The Internet, like a city, offers an enormous array of entertainment and educational resources but also presents some potential risks. Kids need help navigating this world.
"Not only is Black History Month relevant, I think it's more important than ever that two things happen. One, that there be a coming together across the country to say, 'How do we change these horrible statistics of what's going on in the African-American community? How do we force a focus on it?' And two, even more than that, to talk to African-American children who have either no knowledge of, or no respect for African-American history, and know Dr. King only as being a dreamer, and know Malcolm X only as 'by any means necessary.'
erica have been increasing steadily for the past fifty to seventy years. Today five to eight times as many high school and college students meet the criteria for diagnosis of major depression and/or an anxiety disorder as was true half a century or more ago. This increased psychopathology is not the result of changed diagnostic criteria; it holds even when the measures and criteria are constant. 