Youth Today
The New York Bureau
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2.6KThe Credible Messengers: Youth Organize to Save Our Streets
Youth Organizing to Save Our Streets trains teens to be leaders and organizers in their neighborhood and mentors them on how to...
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2.2KTeens Work With Legislators to Bring Change
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate and the largest prison population of any country in the world. On any given day,...
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1.7KIn Brooklyn, Green Space With Nowhere to Play
NEW YORK — Down a long hallway, through electric blue double doors, the squeaks of young people’s sneakers echoed from P.S. K753’s...
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1.4KTrying to Get Their Code On in the South Bronx
NEW YORK — On a freezing Saturday morning in a brick building in the south Bronx, young people with laptops filled a...
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1.1KNew Orleans Filmmaker Hopes to Get the ‘91%’ Out of Movie Seats, Into Ballot Box
NEW YORK — The filmmaker could not get the number out of his head. Even while he was traveling the country to...
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3.1KAn Underdog Sport in NY, Wrestling Helps Students Score Better Grades
“Myself and most of our teachers, we were thinking about wrestling like Hulk Hogan or Andre the Giant,” said assistant principal Tommy...
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1.2KJuggling Child Care, Other People’s Big Families and Toxic Chemicals
NEW YORK — The women wait on an exposed street corner above the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway at the intersection of Marcy and Division...
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2.9KMany Former Foster Youth Unaware of New Health Care Benefits
NEW YORK — Torren McIntyre steadies his feet on the corner of Erasmus Street and Nostrand Avenue in central Brooklyn and forces...
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2.4KYoung Family Caregivers Face Many Struggles, Get Little Support
When Keyona Vincent was a senior in high school, she dropped out. She wasn’t pregnant or on drugs. She didn’t have any...
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1.1KYoga, Meditation Lessons Work for Some Teens
NEW YORK — On a sunny school day last year, the last thing 20 teenagers seemed interested in was a yoga class....
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1.2KWhat Awaits Unaccompanied Minors in New York
Angelica is one of the lucky ones. A "smart and bubbly" 8-year-old Honduran girl who "loves, loves, loves math," according to the...
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2.4KBoat-building in the Bronx
Inside a brick building, with wooden floors splattered with paint, sawdust in the air and loud power tools, teenagers in goggles bang...
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1.3KNew York After-school Program Takes a Hands-on Approach
NEW YORK — In a sunny room in the Banknote building, a facility in the South Bronx that once printed stamps and...
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1.1KBig Easy Stories of LGBT Youth Light the Apple’s Stage
Young LGBTQ residents tell stories of New Orleans' darker side that affects their lives.
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Innovative Ways to Engage Kids Displayed at National AfterSchool Association Conference
NEW YORK — If you’re a kid in Park Slope, Brooklyn, chances are you’ve stumbled into the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. What...
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Award Ceremony Honors New York After-School Educators, Programs
NEW YORK — The tables at Midtown Manhattan’s ornate Cipriani restaurant, with its high, grand arched ceilings, were set with bouquets of...
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National AfterSchool Association Conference Draws Educators to New York
NEW YORK — Thousands of teachers, administrators and other education professionals from across the country are gathering in midtown Manhattan Friday for...
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Youth Orchestra in New York Hits the Right Note
NEW YORK — It was a Friday afternoon in November when schoolchildren carrying orchestra instruments arrived with their parents in the auditorium of...
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Far Rockaway Youth Group For the Youth, Run By the Youth
NEW YORK — When Milan Taylor read reports in New York City tabloids that a local elementary school, Far Rockaway’s P.S. 106, had...
