Losing My Close Friend To Suicide, And No One’s Talking About It
My first encounter with youth depression came during my sophomore year in high school. I was only a witness and yet its impact was powerful enough to rip my life apart.
My first encounter with youth depression came during my sophomore year in high school. I was only a witness and yet its impact was powerful enough to rip my life apart.
You never know what might jump off on 1st Fridays in the YR Arts Venue!! We feature musical performances, dances, discussions on technology and current events, art exhibits, pop-up shops featuring local apparel , and more!
The argument that stands is that U.S./American history is continued to be taught as a core class while the history of other cultures, a reflection of many American student bodies, are taught as electives. It is quite obvious that the teaching of ethnic studies is of utmost importance not only academically, but for one’s self fulfillment, and to form a better understanding of institutionalized oppression.
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It’s been a dream of mine to go to the best film school in the nation, a place like NYU or USC, where the classes are legendary and so is the cost. More than 50 thousand dollars a year.
I wonder, and worry, how these presidential candidates are doing so well, and it brings me back to high school. In our elections at school, the flashiest candidates win.
As a Jew, my most important holiday season comes months earlier than December. It’s at the beginning of the school year when my family celebrates Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Gun violence is in the national spotlight again in the wake of a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California yesterday. While mass shootings make up most of the headlines, Youth Radio’s Nila Venkat looks at the many other gun incidents fly under the national radar.
Most people are fighting to get into private school. I fought to get out.
Laurent Scotto di Uccio, who teaches 5th grade French, asks his students, “I don’t know if you know, but something happened in Paris and in Lebanon not long ago. Did you hear about it?”