Your source for youth perspectives on juvenile justice issues and trends.
For young Bostonians, Wednesday’s guilty verdict against 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev can bring up mixed feelings. Youth Radio teamed up with the young folks at ZUMIX Radio in Boston to ask local youths what they think justice looks like in the wake of the Boston Bombing verdict.
Youth Radio brought together young people, community leaders and representatives from police departments throughout the East Bay for a candid discussion about building trust and safety in our communities.
How does gun violence affect you and your community? How can young people help to reduce the threat of gun violence? How should we educate kids about the possibility of gun violence without causing them to live in fear?
I hear my heart beating as if I have earphones plugged into my pulse. My body tenses up, and you’d…
By Tou Vang, The kNOw Youth Media Ed. Note: A new set of California regulations aimed at ferreting out contraband in…
By Jacob Simas/The kNOw Youth Media Across the country today, there are more than 61,000 young people who eat, sleep and…
By Miguel Quesada – The Beat Within Seventeen years ago, at the age of 16, I sat in a juvenile…
I was 8 years old, asleep in the top bunk of my bed, when I heard guys yelling outside my…
Youth Radio teens and teachers sat down together to come up with a lesson plan for how educators can facilitate a productive conversation about race, police and violence, grounded in a collection of stories created by Youth Radio’s reporters and commentators.
