Youth Today
All posts tagged "New York"
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3.0KFrom the BureausHomeless and Queer: A Vampire in Brooklyn
Faith Alastair’s experience with homelessness is the first of three stories on LGBTQ homeless youth as reported by the JJIE’s New York...
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3.5KFrom the BureausBrooklyn Students, NYPD Work Together on Their Neighborhoods
Dana Rachlin and other activists around juvenile justice have been waiting a long time for the city to limit police involvement in...
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2.7KFrom the BureausNew York Theater Stages ‘Antigone in Ferguson’
The Greek play “Antigone” tells the story of a defiant woman sentenced to death by a king who refuses to practice mercy....
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9.2KFrom the BureausThe Bully in the Bunk Bed, When Aggression Goes Beyond Sibling Rivalry
All cars used to come equipped with cigarette lighters. Those lighters got really hot. Jon found that out the hard way when...
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10.9KFrom the BureausNew York Child Welfare Advocates Want Parents to Have Representation When Their Children Removed
Angeline Montauban had no idea what was going on the day in 2013 that workers from the city Administration for Children’s Services...
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3.9K► NewsmakersGeoffrey Canada Receives the Richard Murphy Leadership Award
Geoffrey Canada is the recipient of the Richard Murphy Leadership Award for his extraordinary accomplishments in the youth services field in New...
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3.0KNewsBasketball Program in NY Goes Full-court Press on STEM
The well-meaning cannot parachute into a minority and marginalized community with a remedy for a systemic problem and expect to be easily...
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2.8KNewsFoster Students Struggle to Get Financial Aid, Advice for College
“I view myself as a lone wolf. You can be around people but still feel very much alone,” said Gianni Cuevas, who...
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3.2K► NewsmakersNew York City Leader Wins National Child Welfare Award
The commissioner of New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) has won the 2019 Excellence for Children Leadership Award by Casey...
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2.8KNewsNew York Activist Against Police Shootings Laid to Rest
On Sept. 27, 1994, Nicholas Heyward Sr.’s life changed. His 13-year-old son, Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr., was playing cops-and-robbers with a toy...
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3.1KNewsNY Activists Mourn ‘Elder Statesman’ Who Fought for Justice for Slain Son for 24 Years
More than a week since Christmas, Donna Carter-Heyward’s Brooklyn apartment still had the cozy warm atmosphere of the holidays. A small Charlie...
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2.4KEditorialMariah Charles’ Arrest Is Yet More Proof of Injustices Against Youth of Color
After it happened, the beating, the arrest, the sudden violence on the way to school, the high school sophomore wasn’t the same.
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3.6KFrom the BureausTrauma of Her Violent Arrest Lingers, Even As Young New Yorker Beats the System
After it happened, the beating, the arrest, the sudden violence on the way to school, the high school sophomore wasn’t the same.
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3.7KFrom the BureausArrested for Not Carrying an ID on Way to High School, Young New Yorker Opts to Fight
Mariah Charles woke up on Tuesday faced with a difficult decision. Does she take a plea to a crime she didn’t commit...
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2.6KNewsNew York City’s Gang Database Is 99% People of Color, Chief of Detectives Testifies
Ninety-nine percent. The number sent an audible gasp throughout the City Council chamber. Chief of Detectives Dermot F. Shea had just read...
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2.7KNewsNY High School Students Pull Off Gun Regulation Forum for State Candidates
Jessica Moskowitz hesitated before she sat in one of the pews in the back of an Episcopal church. The 16-year-old is Jewish...
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1.9KNews3 New Yorkers Talk About Life With DACA
George Kenefati, a sophomore at Macaulay Honors College in Manhattan, recently posted a social event on Facebook for his fellow students. It...
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2.1KFrom the BureausThis 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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4.0KFrom the BureausYoung 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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4.0KNewsFrom Detention to Graduation: Examining Role of Education in U.S. Juvenile Justice System
At 7 a.m., teenagers are scurrying to dress and head to class. There are no parents or older siblings nearby to push...
