Youth Today
The New York Bureau
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6.5KFor Underdog High School Football Team in Harlem, Fight Is a Way of Life
The weight room inside Frederick Douglass Academy in East Harlem, New York is nothing more than a repurposed classroom. The ceiling is...
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1.8KAlton Sterling Decision Shreds Last Bit of Trust in Police, Community Says
It is easy to imagine that the scene Thursday afternoon in front of the Triple S Food Mart on North Foster Drive...
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2.5KMarch for Our Lives Is Turning Point for Lifelong Activist, Energized Teen
The soon-to-be marchers, many of them teenagers, stood in the dark, shivering in the bitter cold, bracing against brutal winds howling off...
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2.9KThey’re Working to Reform Juvenile Justice With an ‘Art Attack’
The pianist jammed on the Steinway with such force, he stood up to play it. The rest of the orchestra swayed with...
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3.6KNY Students Quick to Throw Themselves Into March Organizing
It was late in the evening on Feb. 16 when Joey Wong’s flight from La Guardia Airport in New York City landed...
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3.5KConey Island Teens Take First Steps Into Anti-violence Movement
Instead of hanging out, 35 Coney Island teenagers spent their midwinter vacation last week learning to cope with everyday trauma and avoid...
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1.8KThis Pro-justice Reform Candidate in Brooklyn, NY, Started Activism at Age 12
Twenty-three years ago, New York City Council candidate Anthony Beckford faced long odds when he spoke out...
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3.0KYoung People a Focus for Anti‑fascism, Anti-Trump Movement
It was a school night and well past Joshua Vega’s bedtime when most of the world learned that Donald Trump had won...
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2.6KBoys & Girls Club Volunteer-Turned-Employee Says Listening to the Kids Is the Key
Wynter Parham, 29, is surrounded by teens in the kitchen at the Boys and Girls Club as she takes everyone’s cupcakes out...
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1.4KYoung Bostonians Pleased With Counter-protester Turnout Against ‘Free Speech’ Rally
With her 2-year-old son perched on her shoulders, Tomiqua Williams, 30, carefully guided her 5-year-old daughter’s...
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1.9KHow a New York Police Official Targets Thoughts to Fight Crime
When Carlos Jennings got out of prison in 2014, he wanted to kill the person who helped put him there. “I wasn’t...
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1.5KMothers Whose Children Have Been Arrested, Killed by Police Meet to Organize
The mother never wanted to talk in public about what happened to her son. For 24 years — since her then-17-year-old son...
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2.4KYoung People Suing Government, Oil Industry Over Climate Change Rally
Coreal Riday-White is an attorney working to hold the U.S. government and the oil industry responsible for climate change, a case that...
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1.6KYouth Today Reporter Wins Award for Social Justice Coverage
Karen Savage, a recent New York-based reporter for JJIE and Youth Today, has received The Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Social Justice...
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1.3KMore Families Struggling to Feed Children Reach Out for Help in Queens
Three weeks after Thanksgiving, Rosana Borges sat at her dining room table and picked at the last piece of turkey in a...
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1.8KActivists Hopeful ‘Torture’ of NY Teens Ends With Passage of Raise the Age Legislation This Year
Alicia Barraza started her testimony with statistics. Sixteen- and 17-year-olds who serve time in New York’s adult facilities are twice as likely...
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1.2KOrganizations That Provide Creative Escape From Prison Start to Connect
Life prospects appeared bleak for 17-year-old Terrance Williams on a quiet Saturday in the spring of 2013.
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1.7KA Civil Rights Movement Grows in Brooklyn
Two meetings last week, one in a ragged community center across the street from a waterfront Brooklyn housing project, the other in...
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3.7KCommunity-based Organization Battles Chronic Absenteeism in Queens
It was 40 degrees and drizzling, and it would not be easy to get the kids to school today.
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Children Will Continue to Flee Danger, Expert Says
In all her years working with Unaccompanied Alien Children, one interaction in particular stands out to Michelle Brané, the director of migrant...
