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At California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), where an average of 2.6 sexual assaults are reported each year in the past 5 years, students are celebrating the enactment of the law and sharing their ideas on what more can be done on campus.
My dad was there for graduation and to teach me how to ride a bike. But my mom was the one who taught me how to be a man.
Given evidence that many girls and boys are physically maturing faster than previous decades, do you think schools should start sex-ed at a younger age? When is the right time to start talking to kids about their changing bodies, and what are the best ways to have that conversation? Who should educate kids about puberty — parents or schools or both?
My old neighborhood of Beachwood is about three miles from the closest supermarket. There are only two corner stores that sell produce, and they are usually overpriced, have a small selection, and sometimes that produced isn’t refrigerated. Some people are forced to buy this food because they do not have transportation to go shop elsewhere.
I was eight years old, asleep in the top bunk of my bed, when I heard guys yelling outside my…
When I turned 18, my social worker made it seem like I wouldn’t qualify for MediCal anymore. So I stopped filling out the forms, and stopped going to the doctor.
California’s governor just passed a “Yes Means Yes” law to address the issue of sexual assault on college campuses. It…
Nearly 3,000 people in West Africa have died from the Ebola virus this year, the largest outbreak in history. About half of those deaths have been in Liberia. That’s brought the suffering to Minnesota, home to one of the largest Liberian enclaves in the U.S.
By: Alyson Bryant/ VoiceWaves [Editor’s Note: In 2009, Wilson High School student Melody Ross was accidentally shot and killed by…
