Can An App Help You Set Sexual Boundaries?
California’s governor just passed a “Yes Means Yes” law to address the issue of sexual assault on college campuses. It…
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Liberians In Minnesota Come Together To Fight Ebola With Money, Information
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.
Federal Government Wants Equal Resources For All Students
The White House released a Dear Colleague letter to school districts, states and schools reinforcing the need to provide all students with equal resources — especially students of minority backgrounds.
ello: Can Social Media Exist Without Ads?
A version of this story aired on NPR’s Morning Edition. Vermont’s known for its green pastures, farmsteads, and roads free…
Broken Trust: Can Police and Youth Ever See Eye To Eye?
It’s easy to point to the shooting of Michael Brown as one big example. But this summer alone, there were so many others. Teens at Youth Radio have been recounting their experience with police shootings, racial profiling, and harassment for years.
It Goes Both Ways: How Youth Violence Hurts Everyone
By: Alyson Bryant/ VoiceWaves [Editor’s Note: In 2009, Wilson High School student Melody Ross was accidentally shot and killed by…
Understanding The Difference Between Love and Pain
As a young person who was in an abusive relationship, I didn’t know the difference between love and pain. Recently…
Ai Weiwei’s At Large Comes To Alcatraz, and to Bay Area Classrooms
Vibrant dragon kites and more than a million Lego bricks are some of the whimsical childhood pleasures that, in the…
Say Ello To the Latest David to Facebook’s Goliath
via TurnstyleNews.com Before we go any further, I’d like to say that this isn’t–likely–Ello‘s fault. People have been hungry for a…