Black Boy
General Sites and Maps
Newsela offers a wealth of related resources and links to Black Boy
Library Companion offers a related collection on poverty and its impact on crime, health, youth and families
LA Times Map and info on homicides in LA County
Crime Mapping offers crime related stats across the country
WalkScore Useful to correlate walkability and safety in cities
CityLab on urban violence, offering related links and maps to gun violence
Environmental Justice
Greenpeace on environmental injustice issues, and resistance, across California
UC Davis offers a collection of multimedia related to environmental justice issues
Scope LA forcuses on environmental injustice specific to South Los Angeles
F&WW focuses on how cap and trade = social injustice across areas of California
Health and Poverty - Prevalence of Fast Food and Food Insecurity
Geospatial Institute on the presence of food deserts in Southern California Counties
MarketPlace on the unexpected challenges of living in a food desert
Food Forward offers info on food deserts in the LA area
NPR on food deserts and finding one near you
Propel LA discusses food deserts in LA County
PS Mag on why urban areas has so much fast food
Timeline on fast food in inner cities
CityLab on how fast food chains cornered the urban markets
New Republic on how fast food supersized inequality
IB Times on how fast food chains market to Black and poor children over other groups
USC on food insecurity in Western Los Angeles County
Education - Property Taxes and Funding
KQED on how Proposition 13 transformed neighborhood schools in California
Strong Towns on mapping the effects of Prop 13 on California communities
Guardian covers what went wrong with funding of CA schools
KPBS on Prop 13's impact on schools in CA
LA Times Op-Ed offers its perspective on Prop 13's consequences in CA schools
OC Register also offers its own perspective on the legacy of Prop 13 on CA schools
Ed100 on education spending and if enough is done for CA schools
CalBudget Center fact sheet on support for K-12 budgets improving, but needing improvement
CDE offers data on CA educational expenses and per pupil spending
EdWeek offers interactive map on per pupil spending by state
PPIC on financing CA's public schools
Access Books on CA school libraries and funding crisis
KPBS on schools in rich neighborhoods receiving more tax dollars
Education - Affirmative Action
KQED on CA's affirmative action ending in 1996 and its consequences on Black student enrollment at UCs
Guardian compares Black and Latino student enrollment in UC schools before and after affirmative action ended
CNN archived article from 1997 as Proposition 209 takes effect in CA
Berkeley on defining affirmative action and its impact at UC Berkeley
NYT on 50 years of affirmative action in the US...what went right and what it got wrong
Education - High School Graduation
Ed Week offers HS graduation rates by state and student demographics
Child Trends on high school dropout rates in the US
US News on graduation rates at an all time high, but continued concern among education advocates
Education - Discipline and The School to Prison Pipeline
Vox on the disparity of student discipline based on race
Ed Week on the growth of discipline disparities for students of color
US News on African American females being twice as likely as their female peers to be suspended in the US
DISCC explains the school to prison pipeline
ACLU on how CA school policies fail to protect and serve students
UCLA on the overcriminalization of youth in Southern California
Higher Education - Colleges, Affordability, and Economic Mobility
Hechinger Report on low income student graduation from elite colleges and their future struggles with socioeconomic mobility
Ed.gov on college affordability and completion...how to ensure a path to success, including related links and articles
HuffPost on why it's harder than ever for financially struggling students to get into college
LA Times on student life at USC depending on the size of your bank account
BBC on gap years as a luxury for the rich
Atlantic on why education is a limited determinant of social mobility
Hechinger Report on whether US colleges promote social mobility
Brookings also covers how colleges and universities promote economic mobility
PEW on why free college tuition is spreading from cities to states
Forbes on college completion rates still disappointing
Washington Examiner on the college graduation rate being lower than we think
College Completion offers an interactive map of college completion data by state