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Social media can offer Black African young people in Australia safe spaces to engage in positive expressions of afro-Blackness.
Participants in a new peer mentoring outreach program aimed at reducing crime in the African community in Western Australia.
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A new crime prevention program in Western Australia is training young Australians of African descent to become peer mentors to at-risk youths in their communities.
African-Australians protesting what they perceive as biased media coverage outside the Channel 7 studios in Melbourne last weekend.
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The problem is the disproportionate amount of attention on the so-called African gang problem and the way these incidents are being reported.
Hip hop star Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier for the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army in Ethiopia, visiting Sudanese school children in a Fitzroy community centre.
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Recent media reports of South Sudanese ‘crime gangs’ do nothing to offer young people what they most need: inclusion, acceptance and employment.