{"id":6589,"date":"2011-07-07T08:31:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T12:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6589"},"modified":"2011-07-07T08:38:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T12:38:13","slug":"african-american-youth-civic-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6589","title":{"rendered":"African American youth civic engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am at the Open Society Foundation in Washington, DC for a convening on Black Youth Civic Engagement, which has drawn many of the leading experts and activists on African American young people and politics. The CIRCLE PowerPoint that I presented provides an overview of this issue from our perspective:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/African_American_youth.ppt\">African American Youth Civic Engagement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a sample graph from the presentation, showing that African American young people set the all-time record for youth turnout by any racial or ethnic group in 2008:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/black_youth_turnout.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/black_youth_turnout.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"black_youth_turnout\" width=\"408\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to note that the trend was already up in 2004, so the high turnout was not just an Obama effect. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am at the Open Society Foundation in Washington, DC for a convening on Black Youth Civic Engagement, which has drawn many of the leading experts and activists on African American young people and politics. The CIRCLE PowerPoint that I presented provides an overview of this issue from our perspective: African American Youth Civic Engagement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6589"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6595,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions\/6595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}