Looks like UNICEF’s latest campaign to support African children missed the mark. The campaign featuring white children with their faces covered in mud, has been pulled. No one would argue the fact that UNICEF does a lot of good work in a lot of forlorn places, but…

What were they thinking?
Hat tip to Black Women in Europe & Radar Online
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As often as possible, it’s healthful to push past all the damning, screaming crime headlines to do a reality check: bottom line, juvenile crime is down in America.
Amid news stories that raise the specter of increasing juvenile crime, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that crime rates overall, particularly for violent crimes, are still near 30-year lows. The cries of alarm are reminiscent of those heard in the early 1990s, when a rise in violent juvenile crime and myths of superpredators helped transform a system that …