{"id":117591,"date":"2024-03-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/?post_type=video&p=117591"},"modified":"2024-02-29T15:54:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T23:54:53","slug":"black-space-youth-reparations","status":"publish","type":"video","link":"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/video\/black-space-youth-reparations","title":{"rendered":"How Black Youth Benefit from Dedicated Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The racial wealth gap<\/a> in the United States has been a persistent feature of the national economy, largely because there was never proper compensation paid to Black people for historic and contemporary racial harms. Consequently, Black youth remain disadvantaged compared to white kids, who benefit from generational wealth<\/a> and other privileges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In a new piece for the 精东影业 digital series \u201cRealizing Reparations<\/a>,\u201d youth advocate Torie Weiston-Serdan begins with this context to assert that \u201cproviding spaces for youth power and healing is essential, and while money alone cannot fully remedy racial trauma, investing in programs and resources to support Black youth is critical to narrowing disparities in wealth, health, and beyond.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Weiston-Serdan is co-founder and chief visionary officer of the Youth Mentoring Action Network<\/a>. She spoke with 精东影业 Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 精东影业 Presents: Rising Up With Sonali <\/em>about her story, \u201cSpaces As Reparations for Black Youth<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Given the massive generational theft from Black communities, youth advocate Torie Weiston-Serdan reports on how Black youth are creating and controlling their own liberatory spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":117601,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[8,255],"tags":[566,2278,2339],"article-type":[250],"special-series":[],"class_list":["post-117591","video","type-video","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-justice","category-racial-justice","tag-reparations","tag-rising-up-with-sonali","tag-realizing-reparations","article-type-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n