The hoverboard was discovered by Marty McFly in Back To The Future Part II (1989), the sequel where McFly must travel to 2015 to prevent his future son from making a grave mistake.
Series: Youth Happenings
Teenagers and youth phenomena in the news today
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A Life On Hold: Story of a Teen Refugee.
When war broke out in Libya last year, thousands of refugees from countries including Somalia, Sudan, and Eritrea, were forced to flee for their lives.
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Good Rats
Photographer and filmmaker Niall O’Brien spent three years on and off living alongside a group of young punks from South-West London.
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Iraqi Emo Attacks
Iraqi youth’s adaptation of the emo subculture has resulted in at least 90 deaths across the country.
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Gay-Straight Alliance
The GSA, or ‘Gay Straight Alliance Network‘, is a youth leadership organization.
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Teen Polyglot
Timothy Donner is a sixteen-year-old boy living in Manhattan.
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RIP Davy Jones
Davy Jones was born in Manchester in 1945.
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Design Of The Flies
What better book to be designed by teenagers than Lord of the Flies!
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Varsity Gay
Jeremy is a seventeen-year-old football player living in one of America’s most conservative regions.
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Russian Riot Grrls!
Pussy Riot is an anonymous, all-female punk band and part of a larger movement of young Russians who are unhappy with the current political climate.