Personal Budget

I was watching the Spanish news with my parents yesterday and the story that grabbed my attention was about a family who were forced to sell their personal belongings for a quick buck. I can’t imagine myself selling my gold necklace that was giving to me by my parents for my quinceañera. I’m thankful that [...]

What’s The New What? Yes, It Is.

Back in business after a Van Winkle-esque slumber, Youth Radio’s cutting edge culture blog What’s the New What returns to “Teh Interwebs” on the eve of the launch of the new What’s The New What segment on NPR’s Day To Day May 22nd.
Within its virtual pages you will discover how Internships are the New Summer [...]

Smoking Blues

[Unathi Kondile- Youth Radio Cape Town]
At first my affair with cigarettes was one of love and hate. As a child I actually enjoyed that rich smell of Benson & Hedges. My grandfather would sit in front of the TV canning himself with one cigarette after the next. He’d take us to school and we’d get [...]

Question of the Week: Social Networking Time Suck RESPONSE

Seeing as I am a patron of both Myspace AND Facebook (shh, keep it on the DL, Myspace doesn’t know I’m with Facebook, Facebook doesn’t know I’m with Myspace…there could be some drama…) I spend quite a hefty amount of time wasting away on social networking websites. If you’d wanna whittle all the intricacies and [...]

NFCB Slideshow

A collection of photos from our trip to the National Federation of Community Broadcasters  conference in Atlanta last week.

Oakland Youth/Gary King Jr. Celebration

This is a parking lot party celebrating the youth of Oakland, building the awareness of the violence going in our community. This event will also be celebrating Gary King Jr., the 20-year old who was shot and killed by Oakland Police last September. There will be an open mic for young people to rap, sing, [...]

Chris Rodriguez Fundraiser

Chris Rodriguez is a ten-year old Oakland boy who is currently paralyzed from the waist down after being hit by a stray bullet while attending a piano lesson on January 10th, 2008. His family needs support from the community with the mounting medical bills and a wheelchair accessible home .
To this end a fund raiser [...]

Postcard From Hopi High

[By the radio/journalism class at Hopi High, Arizona]

Nukwang Talongva, that means “good morning” in Hopi.
We are five hours away from spring break, but it’s kind of like we’re already gone. Half of all the students are gone to a track meet, our grades are already finalized, and we’re just counting the hours.
We live in the [...]

English Teacher Gone Wild

[ News Commentary by Ankitha Bharadwaj ]
This past Tuesday (March 11, 2008) one Bay Area teacher took his duty of watching over children a little too literally. David Lista, an English teacher at Mills High school in Millbrae installed discrete cameras in the girls’ bathroom and recorded hours of pornographic footage. Creepy much?
And to make [...]

UNC Murder Case Break

One suspect charged, another sought, in UNC murder
DURHAM, N.C.—Police have arrested and charged 21 year old  Demario James Atwater with first degree murder in the slaying of University of North Carolina student Eve Carson.  Authorities are currently looking for 17-year-old Lawrence Alvin Lovett Jr., who also faces first degree murder charges.
Carson, a pre-med student and [...]