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Youth Radio/Youth Media International (YMI) is a Peabody Award-winning youth-driven converged media production company that delivers the best youth news and culture and undiscovered talent to a cross section of audiences. Youthradio.org is a participatory news space where young reporters can publish original content, including writing, audio, photo, and video directly to the website from anywhere in the world.

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Pregnancy Prevention Via Text?

(0) Comments | Posted May 14, 2013 | 3:44 PM

By: Chantell Williams

Ever wonder what it’s like to own a giggling, spitting, peeing bundle of joy? Well now you can use your phone to find out.

DoSomething.Org has launched a campaign that uses text messages as a way to educate young people about what it’s like to...

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Jobstacles - From Banking To Hosting A TV Show

(0) Comments | Posted May 10, 2013 | 2:49 PM

By Chaz Hubbard, Denise Tejada and Jenny Bolario

What's the path to that dream job? How does one job lead to another? Youth Radio finds out in our series Jobstacles.

Being on camera talking about video games was never something Adam Sessler imagined for himself. In fact, Sessler graduated from...

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Young Immigrants Torn Between Their Futures And Their Families

(7) Comments | Posted May 3, 2013 | 2:02 PM

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Student Carlos Hernandez-Martinez in the "Dream Resource Center," part of the Undocumented Student Program at UC Berkeley. Photo Credit: Luis Flores/Youth Radio

By Luis Flores

Tucked away in the student center at University of California Berkeley, the Undocumented...

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Placing More Value On Creating Technology Instead of Using It

(0) Comments | Posted April 30, 2013 | 1:47 PM

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Youth Radio's Christina So thinks schools should teach computer programming. Photo Credit: Brett Myers/Youth Radio

By Christina So

“I’m going to pick on you a lot.” That was the first thing my supervisor Kurt said to me when I joined the App...

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Jobstacles - Ten Year Path To Tesla And a Job Making Electric Cars

(0) Comments | Posted April 25, 2013 | 4:46 PM

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Joel Melero has always been into automobiles, but even he was surprised that his passion for cars led him to a career. Photo Credit: JENNY BOLARIO/Youth Radio

By Chaz Hubbard, Denise Tejada and Jenny Bolario

What's the path to that dream job?...

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How Young People Are Really Using Snapchat

(0) Comments | Posted April 25, 2013 | 4:23 PM

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Most of the news reports kept saying that Snapchat was all about teens sexting. But none of my friends used it for that. Photo Credit: Ike Sriskandarajah/Youth Radio

By Sunday Simon

For more on this story, tune into my feature about...

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Labeled And Lost: A Teacher's Reflection

(0) Comments | Posted April 24, 2013 | 2:19 PM

By Wesley Pepper

I once spent a week in a special ed classroom as a student. I loved it because I was finally in a class with my best friend (who had been labeled special ed because his English wasn’t perfect yet.)

Even he said, “You don’t belong here.” He...

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Jobstacles - How I Became A Plumber

(1) Comments | Posted April 17, 2013 | 1:30 PM

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Sal Algaba took a windy route to becoming a plumber. Photo Credit: Chaz Hubbard/Youth Radio

By: Jenny Bolario, Chaz Hubbard and Denise Tejada

What's the path to that dream job? How does one job lead to another? Youth Radio finds out in...

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New Laws Aim To Help People Get Jobs After Getting Arrested

(0) Comments | Posted April 11, 2013 | 3:53 PM

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Photo Credit: Brett Myers/Youth Radio

By: Ashley Williams

Seventeen year-old Andrew is filling out a job application for a Jamba Juice in Oakland, California. He’s making his way through the basics, filling out his name and contact information. However question five posed a challenge....

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"42" Review: Jackie Robinson's Story Hits Home

(0) Comments | Posted April 5, 2013 | 7:28 PM

By Pendarvis Harshaw

You know the story of Jackie Robinson--the first African American Major League ballplayer? He did it for the money. Branch Rickey—you know, the person responsible for bringing Jackie Robinson across the color line and into Major League baseball? He did it for the money.

Well, that’s what...

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Jobstacles: Slam-Dunking as a Career

(0) Comments | Posted April 5, 2013 | 2:48 PM

Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe.

By: Jenny Bolario, Chaz Hubbard and Denise Tejada

What's the path to that dream job? How does one job lead to another? Youth Radio finds out in our series Jobstacles.

"Professional Slam-Dunker" isn't a...

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Singling Out Students With Mental Illness Won't Make Schools Safer

(0) Comments | Posted April 3, 2013 | 1:42 PM

Reporting by Chantell Williams


Mental health advocates want the link between violence and people who are mentally ill to disappear.


After the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza, killed 20 children and six staff, lawmakers scrambled to respond to the public’s fear that schools aren’t...

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Where To Go After Dropping Out

(0) Comments | Posted March 28, 2013 | 12:55 PM

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Photo Credit: Brett Myers/Youth Radio

By: Joshua Clayton

In elementary school and junior high, I was a bad little boy. You could find me in the principal’s office almost every day.

I remember my fourth grade teacher telling me, “Joshua if you don't do...

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Sex-Ed Needs K-12 Foundation Like Math, According To New Standards

(1) Comments | Posted March 21, 2013 | 1:35 PM

The Chicago Board of Education recently approved a new sexual health education policy, based on the National Sexuality Education Standards that were released in 2012. 

Under Chicago’s new policy, championed by Dr. Stephanie Whyte, Chief Health Officer for Chicago Public Schools, kindergarteners through...

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How Social Circles Affect Students' Grades

(0) Comments | Posted March 20, 2013 | 3:39 PM

By Nick Miller

Researchers asked 160 high school students in New York to identify their close friends, regular friends and acquaintances, and then used the data to draw connections between friend circles and students' grade point averages, attendance and disciplinary actions, according to an article in

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Rates of Incarceration For White and Hispanic Women On The Rise

(1) Comments | Posted March 19, 2013 | 4:53 PM

By: Sayre Quevedo

According to a new study by The Sentencing Project, "The Changing Racial Dynamics of Women's Incarceration," women's incarceration rates have outpaced those of men over the last decade. Though representing a small fraction of the prison population, "The number of women incarcerated in state or...

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Wake Up Call - Finding Adult Success Requires Adult Responsibility

(0) Comments | Posted March 18, 2013 | 2:53 PM

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Photo Credit: Brett Myers/Youth Radio

According to a 2012 study from the US Department of Education, high school graduates from low income households are 30 percent less likely to enroll in college than high school grads from high income families. The disparity...

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Guns Vs. Pencils: Plenty Of Lead But No Erasers

(4) Comments | Posted March 15, 2013 | 1:20 PM

Editor’s note: The recent news coverage of gun violence in the United States has spotlighted the victims of shootings, like 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton. But a column in the New York Times by Alex Kotlowitz raises a related issue that many young people living in urban environments...

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Chicago Play Features Real Stories Of Youth Violence

(0) Comments | Posted March 11, 2013 | 2:32 PM

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Photo Credit: Steppenwolf Theater
(Left to right: Pastor Brooks (Mark Smith) comforts a grieving mother (Celeste Williams) and her son (Charles Gardner) in Steppenwolf for Young Adults’ world-premiere production of How Long Will I Cry?: Voices of Youth Violence, by Miles Harvey, directed...
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Study Finds Fewer Youth in Juvenile Detention

(0) Comments | Posted February 27, 2013 | 12:07 PM

By Sayre Quevedo

70,792 juveniles were reported to be incarcerated across the United States in 2010, but according to a new study by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, that’s actually a sign of improvement. The study, “Reducing Youth Incarceration in the United States,” found that the...

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