The Greek play “Antigone” tells the story of a defiant woman sentenced to death by a king who refuses to practice mercy....
By the time she turned 6, Jessica Reese had been sexually abused repeatedly. Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services took Reese and...
When Randall Woodfin received the call that his older brother, Ralph Jr., had been shot, he rushed to the scene in the...
Cassio Batteast, a community advocate in Jackson, recently sat down with 20 of the students in the local school district who were...
Relly Brown was so destitute in 2016 they could not even get a room in the abandoned house on the corner of...
Youth in foster care face a multitude of barriers when it comes to higher education. How will they pay for room, board,...
Mississippi’s capital city is becoming a petri dish for an experiment designed to stop an epidemic of gun violence that claimed 84...
The fight against youth homelessness drags on and on. It is not that the fighters are no match for a seemingly intractable...
“I view myself as a lone wolf. You can be around people but still feel very much alone,” said Gianni Cuevas, who...
A chance invitation freed Elizabeth Turner from the revolving door of the North Carolina foster care system and homelessness and set her...
Keiston Davis regained his life when he almost lost it.
The shops are beginning to come alive on a Monday morning as Yamina Inzunza arrives at a coffee shop popular with college...
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More than a week since Christmas, Donna Carter-Heyward’s Brooklyn apartment still had the cozy warm atmosphere of the holidays. A small Charlie...
What many consider routine and the direct path to college can be a quagmire for traumatized youth in foster care.
Medical sociologist Eric Wright’s work has taken him into parks, abandoned buildings, shelters and other places off the beaten path.
Keiran Flynn had just finished his junior year at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga., when he decided he was ready to...
Early on, many youth in foster care develop a certain resourcefulness that allows them to navigate thorny situations and push through layers...
Mariah Charles woke up on Tuesday faced with a difficult decision. Does she take a plea to a crime she didn’t commit...
Teen homelessness. Gun control. After-school funding. For two years, students at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism...