On Monday, prosecutors in Brooklyn, N.Y., charged four teenage boys with first-degree rape after the sexual assault of an 18-year-old black girl at a park late last week. The name of the victim hasn’t been released. Police have revealed the identities of the alleged perpetrators, however: Ethan Phillip, 15; Denzel Murray, 14; Shaquell Cooper, 15; and Onandi Brown,…

Writing at Ebony, Darnell L. Moore says that the latest shooting death of a Florida teen, Jordan Davis, reminds us once again of the unique challenges facing our young men. A day after the Thanksgiving holiday, seventeen-year old Jordan Russell Davis was shot by a 45-year old assailant, Michael David Dunn. Dunn claims that he unloaded…