YPP Jackson recently hosted the U.S. Dept. of Ed. as part of their National Youth Listening tour. The event took place on Sept. 2 and we were joined by Alberto Retana who is the Director of Community Outreach for the department in Washington,D.C. Several organizations including the Childrens Defense Fund, United Way, NAACP and the Metro Youth initiative participated in a roundtable to discuss the president's goals for having the most educated population in the world by 2020.

Toni Ross Hostess of the Finding our Folk Fundraising House Party enjoy a day of festivities.

YPP @ Radical Math Brooklyn

Math Literacy Workers and Instructors from Greater Boston and Miami facilitate a workshop on the Flagway at the 2nd annual Radical Math Conference. April 3, 2008, Long Island University

Y.P.P./G.R.E.E.N.S

Another YPP/G.R.E.E.N.S session with Ona Barnes, a 30 year local Organic Gardner from Jackson, MS. Working around various vegetables.

Produced by Washington Keon Media, "Beyond the Bricks" Project is a film and National Community Engagement Campaign developed with the goal of promoting solutions to the long running crisis in American education: the low performance and dismal graduation rates of school-aged Black males. The national community engagement campaign will bring together educators, parents, community leaders, policymakers and students to work to create a solutions based action plan to address the many issues facing our children.