{"id":23012,"date":"2011-08-15T09:31:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T16:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=23012"},"modified":"2011-08-15T09:31:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T16:31:27","slug":"california-holds-hearings-on-the-status-of-boys-and-men-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/08\/15\/california-holds-hearings-on-the-status-of-boys-and-men-of-color\/","title":{"rendered":"California Holds Hearings on the Status of Boys and Men of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-081511\/2011_08_15_boys_of_color.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-081511\/2011_08_15_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45%  src=\"http:\/\/californiaschildren.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e55005baf388340133f1f970fa970b-500pi\" alt=\"\" \/>New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and billionaire philanthropist George Soros are donating $30 million dollars each to their City\u2019s Young Men\u2019s Initiative. The program is designed to address the broad disparities slowing the advancement of black and Latino young men by helping them enter the economic mainstream through educational and employment opportunities. According to Mayor Bloomberg, \u201cEven though skin color in America no longer determines a child\u2019s fate \u2013 sadly, it tells us more about a child\u2019s future than it should.\u201d That sentiment is shared here in California, with the fate of boys and men of color drawing the attention of the State Legislature. The Inland Valley News reported last week that less than half of young men of color in California are employed, and &#8220;one third of them are incarcerated, on probation, or on parole.&#8221; High-school drop-out rates for Black and Latino youth in California are particularly high. On Friday the Los Angeles Times reported that only 68% of Latino and 58% of Black high-school students graduated in the 2008-2009 school year. The numbers are especially dismal when compared with White and Asian students, who graduated at rates of 84% and 89% respectively. To address the challenges faced by California\u2019s male youth of color, the State Legislature created the State Assembly\u2019s Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color. The committee will host a series of hearings throughout the state over the next year, with the first hearing scheduled for Wednesday August 17th in Sacramento. The Select Committee on the Status of Boys and Men of Color will bring together state legislators, community leaders, youth, and experts to understand how policy is developed, financed, and delivered in ways that influence young men of color in California. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUESTS: Jevon Wilkes, youth alumnus of the Bresee Foundation, Manuel Pastor, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first hearing will be held in Sacramento on Wednesday August 17th at Room 437 at the California State Capitol, 10th street and Capitol Mall Sacramento, CA 95814, from 1:30 to 4 pm. <\/p>\n<p>Future hearings will be held in Los Angeles and throughout the state. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and billionaire philanthropist George Soros are donating $30 million dollars each to their City\u2019s Young Men\u2019s Initiative. The program is designed to address the broad disparities slowing the advancement of black and Latino young men by helping them enter the economic mainstream through educational and employment opportunities. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}