Community Calls for Justice for Black Bay Area Teen Killed at BART Station
Nia Wilson was a “beautiful sweet person” who loved fashion and makeup.
Justice
Bay Area Teens And Adults Discuss How To Respond To White Supremacists
Right now, a lot of teens are asking the adults in their lives: Should I take to the streets to oppose the rallies, or avoid the whole thing all together?
“This Is Not Normal”: Seventh Graders March To End Gun Violence In Brooklyn
“In the beginning [the students] thought gun violence was normal. They believed it was normal to hear shootings on a nightly basis, for people to solve conflicts with a gun.”
When You See Something But Can’t Say Something
I looked at my dad and asked in a small voice, “We can’t help her?”
I Lost My Dad To Gun Violence
When I woke up that morning, it felt like just another day. Little did I know that my life would change forever.
The Myth of the Model Minority
The myth of the “model minority” is an ever-more prevailing topic in this day and age. My dad’s generation was the pioneers India to United States migration. The growing population of Indian Americans has turned my people into a prominent minority, but that comes with severe injustice and prejudices targeted at Indian Americans.
“To The Youth Of This City” Have The Cries For Justice In Baltimore Been Heard?
The first day of May seemed to mark a turning point in the story of Freddie Gray, the Baltimore man…
Gun Violence
As the days went on I realized how short life could be so my cousins and I decided to do a song in their honor.
Police Brutality
On august 9, 2014, 18-year-old African American male named Michael brown was shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. It all happened on a Saturday afternoon he was walking out of his grandmother’s apartment and got stopped by a policeman. The policeman was trying to put Brown in the car so Brown chose to run away with his hands in the air and as he was running away the policeman started shooting at him and than boom Brown was on the ground.