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Series: Youth Happenings

Teenagers and youth phenomena in the news today

  • July 9, 2013

    Altrincham School Feminists Fight Male Oppression

    BY Claire Lucido

    Seventeen year old Jinan Younis recently wrote an eloquent and powerful piece for The Guardian about her experience starting a feminist society at her all-girls school in the UK after being harassed by grown men on a school trip.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • July 4, 2013

    First Teens — Teens in the White House

    BY Lucas Habte

    In the White House today, the Obamas aren’t just celebrating America, but also Malia’s 15th birthday!

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • June 21, 2013

    Transgender Teen Vloggers

    BY Lucas Habte

    Transgender people and the discrimination they face have been gaining more visibility on a national level in recent years, in particular, transgender youth.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • June 15, 2013

    Istanbul Occupiers

    BY Claire Lucido

    Occupy Istanbul protesters camped out in a park in Gezi before it was recently evacuated by police.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • June 11, 2013

    Teen Engineer Invents Machine to Clean Ocean

    BY Claire Lucido

    Boyan Slat, born in Delft (South Holland) in ’94, has invented a massive garbage sifting machine to be put in the middle of the ocean.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • May 7, 2013

    Radio Diaries

    BY Lucas Habte

    Since 1996, Radio Diaries has been giving young people tape recorders and asking them to tell their stories, which are then broadcast nationally on All Things Considered. 

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • February 27, 2013

    Pregnancy and Poetry in High School

    BY Claire Lucido

    “Graduated 2009.” Powerful reading of a powerful poem.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • January 11, 2013

    13 Yr Old Compares School System to Slavery

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    httpv://youtu.be/T-lG1Wb2AfM

    Eighth grader Jada Williams, a student at School #3 in Rochester NY, wrote a compelling essay connecting the Rochester School System to Frederick Douglas’s The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, or slavery.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • December 28, 2012

    Kiki Ballroom Brooklyn

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Hosted by 18 year old Snookie Lanore (Lawerence Taylor) Kiki balls are thriving in Brooklyn.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • November 28, 2012

    Gaza Youth’s Manifesto for Change

    BY Claire Lucido

    Eight Palestinian college students have written a manifesto that begins “Fuck Hamas… Fuck Israel.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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