Black Teenagers

The New York Daily News reports the 16-year-old was hit with a flashlight by Officer Sean McCamman during an arrest in June 2014.

A high school basketball player told reporters the coach would place his hand on her shoulders and other places, gestures she never experienced with their previous coach.

Sallie Mae got you down? Worried about student loans? Well, that’s one problem Chicago teen Arianna Alexander doesn’t have. The straight A student with a 5.1…

An Indianapolis woman who signed onto Facebook Saturday found herself faced with the heartbreaking news no mother should ever have to endure. Her 15-year-old son, Anthony, had been shot dead and people were writing on her son’s Facebook wall. That was the agonizing moment she found out. “Someone put on Facebook, ‘RIP Anthony, I will […]

Doctors and parents were stunned when research published more than a decade ago found American girls were beginning puberty at much younger ages, some as early as 7. A new study released Sunday suggests the average age at which puberty begins may still be falling for white and Latina girls.