Ghetto Themed Frat Party Sparks Outrage
Youth Outlook, Audio, Posted: Feb 26, 2010
This week on YO!Radio -- citizen journalism trumps j-school, girl gets arrested for doodling and a San Diego frat party mocks Black History Month
Categories: Audio, Original NAM Content, Video, Youth Culture
Ghetto Themed Frat Party Sparks Outrage
Youth Outlook, Video, Posted: Feb 26, 2010
This week on YO!Radio -- citizen journalism trumps j-school, girl gets arrested for doodling and a San Diego frat party mocks Black History Month
Categories: Audio, Original NAM Content, Video, Youth Culture
Girls Missing from 'Girls in Tech' Conference
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There were very few young people at the "Girls in Tech" Catalyst Conference in San Francisco.
Categories: Audio, Original NAM Content, Video, Youth Culture
Young Writers Claim the Block at MoAD
Youth Outlook, Video, Posted: Feb 25, 2010
YO! headed over to an event sponsored by Writers Corps at the The Museum of the African Diaspora where students from Ida B. Wells and Downtown High School in San Francisco shared their creative writing that connected their city to their art.
Categories: Audio, Original NAM Content, Video, Youth Culture
New Bill May Save Undocumented Students From Deportation
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Feb 24, 2010
The DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors) would give undocumented minors a chance to enlist in the military or go to school in the U.S., thus preparing a way for them to become citizens.
Categories: Ethnic Media Network, Immigration, Latino, Youth Culture
Participating in the Census Is Like Voting For Yourself
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Feb 22, 2010
I remember when the Census form came to my house 10 years ago. I was 14. The Y2K scare was more popular in my house than any survey could ever be. It was just another survey to be thrown out.
Categories: Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Youth Culture
Tags: census, convicted felons, samoans, youth undercount
Facebook Critics’ Profiles Restored After Press Uproar
Venture Beat, News Report, Posted: Feb 22, 2010
After an uproar in Latin American media, three Argentines involved in a book that portrays the social network in a cynical and satirical light had their Facebook profiles restored today.
Categories: Latino, Media, Youth Culture
Fighting the War at Home
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Feb 21, 2010
A soldier returns safely after surviving sniper fire and roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the hypervigilance and suppressed emotions that kept him alive have taken a heavy toll. Jeremy P. wrote of his experiences for the Veterans Workshop, a New America Media writing project for military veterans.
Categories: Health, Original NAM Content, Politics & Governance, Top Stories, War & Conflict, Youth Culture
Tags: Iraq war veterans, post traumatic stress, PTSD, readjustment, traumatic brain injury
Richmond Violence Goes to Church
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Audio, Posted: Feb 19, 2010
This week on YO!Radio -- our radio crew discusses the Church shooting that took place in Richmond.
Categories: Audio, Original NAM Content, Video, Youth Culture
Young, Black, Male, Single--and Homeless in San Jose
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Feb 19, 2010
Being one of the millions of unemployed black men in the country--and now homeless--as his 25th birthday approaches makes it hard to celebrate. But the writer has found a creative core and optimism to propel him forward.
Categories: African American, Original NAM Content, Youth Culture
Victims of Mexico's Drug War Getting Younger
Frontera NorteSur, News Report, Posted: Feb 14, 2010
The majority of the estimated 15,000 to 17,000 people slain in drug-related violence in Mexico since late 2006 were young men.
Categories: Latino, Youth Culture
What Does Valentine's Day Mean to You?
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Video, Posted: Feb 13, 2010
YO! asked young men at San Francisco State College about what the Hallmark holiday means to them. Also, YO! contributors Walter Lopez and Angelica Arreola share their Valentine's Day plans.
Categories: Audio, Original NAM Content, Video, Youth Culture
Success After Gangs
Vida en el Valle, News Report, Posted: Feb 13, 2010
Alejandro López is one of many who joined the Conservation Corps' California Gang Reduction and Intervention Program in 2007, and is also one one of six corpsmembers nationwide to receive The Corps Network's Corpsmember of the Year Award, a prestigious honor recognizing at-risk youth and young adults who have dramatically turned their lives around.
Categories: Education, Latino, Youth Culture
Getting Drunk with Dad
YO! Youth Outlook, Audio, Posted: Feb 12, 2010
This week on YO! Radio--Drinking at home with the folks still isn't a good thing, love transcends age in cougar convention, and half of U.S. teens want political power.
Categories: Audio, Original NAM Content, Video, Youth Culture
Youth Jobs Hit Hard by Recession
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Video, Posted: Feb 11, 2010
Across the country, youth unemployment rates have risen at a staggering pace. Nationally, 26 percent of teens aged 16-19 are unemployed, and the rates are much higher for blacks and Latinos.
Categories: Original NAM Content, Stimulus Watch, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Grammys vs. Grannys
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Audio, Posted: Feb 05, 2010
This week on YO!Radio --three young women sit down with YO!Radio host Donny Lumpkins to discuss the ineffectiveness of abstinence-only education, this year's fantastical Grammy performances, and the pressure to be supermodel thin.
Categories: Original NAM Content, Youth Culture
Letters to Haiti
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary, Posted: Feb 04, 2010
As Haiti begins the long road toward recovery, incarcerated youth from The Beat Within in Washington D.C wrote letters of encouragement and condolences to young people in Haiti.
Categories: Original NAM Content, Youth Culture
Where Are All the Male Performers At?
Youth Outlook, Commentary, Posted: Feb 03, 2010
Female artists won big at the 52nd Annual Grammys. Two young men weighed in on why women are outperforming men in the music industry these days.
Categories: Youth Culture
Tags: Artists, Awards, Beyonce, Grammys, Male Artists, Performers
R.I.P. Dewey Tucker
Youth Outlook, Video, Posted: Feb 03, 2010
Dewey Tucker's death has left the music world at a loss. Driving to band rehearsal, the 24-year-old bassist was shot on I-80 and died.
Categories: Video, Youth Culture
Tags: death, Dewey Tucker, music
Young People Weigh in on Legalizing Pot in SF
Youth Outlook, Commentary, Posted: Feb 03, 2010
San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi proposed a June ballot measure that would "license, regulate, and tax the cultivation and sales of cannabis" - whether for medicinal or recreational use, pending board approval. Young people in San Francisco weigh in on the measure.
Categories: Health, Law & Justice, Youth Culture