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, 200 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 [...]

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 [...]

Gay Iranian Teen Faces Deportation, Execution

CNN’s Alphonso Van Marsh reports from London on the case of an Iranian teen who faces deportation from Britain, and possible execution back home in Iran for being gay:
An 19-year old Iranian who dared identify as gay nervously awaits a court ruling that he says could lead to his execution. “Mehdi” was studying English [...]

Mid Day Media Roundup

Mississippi: A Great Young Voter State [Wire Tap]
Ally Klimkoski over at WireTap has a peek at the youth vote in tomorrow’s primary in Mississippi:
In 2006 there were an estimated 440,000 young people in Mississippi compared to the 1.6million people over 30. That’s 27.5 percent of the population, making young people particularly important to the state [...]

Today @ Youth Radio.org

On the front page of Youth Radio.org you’ll find:
The Wire
The Wire has received critical acclaim for its realistic portrayal of urban life and uncommonly deep exploration of sociological themes, and has been named the best show on television by several magazines and newspapers. Youth Radio’s Orlando Campbell explains why the Baltimore-based drama, whose series [...]