Rick Ross Lyric Shows Rape Isn’t Taken Seriously
By Karina Guadalupe Put Molly all in the champagne. She ain't even know it. I took her home and I enjoy that. She ain't even know it. - Lyics...
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Apr
18
Apr
Teachers Helped Me In Ways Online Learning Couldn’t
Commentary, Alicia Marie When I finished high school, I was adamant that I wasn’t going to college. I didn’t have good relationships with my teachers and I wanted nothing more...
16
Apr
Teachers Who Changed My Life
Commentary, Various Authors David Meza: At my high school, Omega Continuation High School, there were only three teachers: Roland Nazar, Mary Zolly and Margaret Love. They were all great in their own...
14
Apr
Young, Black and Addicted to Fast Food
Commentary • Sean Shavers Editor’s Note: A recent study from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) shows that American youth are still eating too much fast food, and that the...
27
Mar
How Should Academic Success Be Measured?
News Analysis • Antoinette Evens Public schools in California will no longer be ranked strictly by student performance on standardized test scores but by a number of other factors such...
18
Mar
Community Mobilizes to Honor Shooting Victim Lincoln Plair
Karina Guadalupe • additional interviews by Paul Billingsley The news of 20-year-old Lincoln Plair’s death was a shock to all of us who knew him. By now, I’m sure everyone else...
05
Mar
Video Games, Voting, and Dreamers
Policy News of the Month Don’t like people talking about you behind your back? That is what happens when policymakers make new laws about young people, and often without even inviting...
01
Mar
Survey: CA Voters Prefer Counseling Over Armed Security at Schools
Report • Antoinette Evans Following the unfortunate tragedy that recently occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School, our nation is yet again faced with answering the question: How can we keep our...
14
Feb
Field Poll: Ethnic Voters Support Soda Tax, Obesity Prevention
News Report • Anna Challet, New America Media SAN FRANCISCO -- A majority of California voters support taxing sugar-sweetened beverages if those taxes are used for school nutrition and physical...
12
Feb
Love in the Time of Turf Wars
Play Review • Edgardo Cervano-Soto Walking into the theater at El Cerrito High School for RAW Talent’s new stage play, one automatically sensed there were two parallel stories taking place. One story...
How I Came to Know My History
Commentary, Asani Shakur The history of my ancestors is a rich history. Although Black history, sadly, is marked with the brutality and inhumanity of slavery, I also see tenacity in our...
07
Feb
As Beyoncé Endorses Soda, Youth Warn of the ‘Sugar Zombies’
Press Release • Anna Challet, New America Media Ed. Note: Organized in the fall of 2012, the Soda Sucks anti-advertising campaign, sponsored by New America Media, invited youth from across California...
31
Jan
Seeing the Positive in Being a Teen Mom
Leer en Español News Feature, Tania Pulido Richmond High is one of the few schools in the city that offers an Adolescent Parenting Program (APP) for teen mothers; and every year, a...
23
Jan
The Tooth Gap for California’s Kids – It’s Widening
News Report, Anna Challet | New America Media Over half of California’s children will soon have access to dental care because of the Affordable Care Act. The problem, according to a...
08
Jan
