Youth
THEATER | Washburn High School students work with local stars to produce "Once On This Island"
As long as there are young lovers, there'll be warmhearted tales of adolescent angst in the face of life's fateful twists and turns. One of the most enduring is pretty-poor-girl-pining-away-for-handsome-rich-kid, from Cinderella on. One of the more interesting is Trinidadian novelist Rosa Guy's My Love, My Love, which tosses into the mix not only class but the seldom acknowledged aspect of color-struck black folk.MORE »
A match for Will: One boy’s need for life-saving transplant sparks community effort
After 18 months battling leukemia with drugs and radiation, 13-year-old Will Dickes of Rochester got an unexpected gift for the New Year ---- a powerful little package of healthy bone marrow with the potential to wipe out the cancer that he has been fighting.
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Yinghua New Year in Minneapolis
While most schools might have ended their week celebrating Valentine's Day or President's Day, the students at Yinghua Academy were busy putting on a dazzling Chinese New Year's performance for their families. The Chinese immersion charter public school welcomed the Year of the Tiger on Friday with dances, skits, and musical performances involving all 300-plus students. MORE »
Hmong YES to begin college mentoring program
Hmong Youth Education Services (Hmong YES), a St. Paul based non-profit, will expand its after-school tutoring program to include a college mentoring program starting mid-February. Hmong YES received a grant to fund the program from the Great Lakes Education Corporation, a non-profit college loan organization. The college mentoring program will focus on matching up Southeast Asian high school students in St. Paul with college mentors at a ratio of 5 students to 1 mentor. MORE »
Thanks to Diamonds & Pearls, teens need not miss their proms due to lack of funds
It all comes down to the dress. Aside from a woman's wedding (and arguably her funeral), no occasion demands more physical primping and pampering than the ominous high school formal. MORE »
THEATER | YPC's "But My Soul Is Rested" aims at inspiring kids to lift up their voices
There's no truer gauge of the success of a production for young audiences than a middle school matinee. On February 5, at 10:00 a.m., I attended a performance of the Youth Performance Company's But My Soul is Rested at the Howard Conn Fine Art Center with an almost full house of middle school students from Fridley, and the very vocal reactions proved a ruthless and enlightening barometer of the play's truthfulness and effectiveness.MORE »
Area NAACP seeks youthful leadership
The Minnesota area president of the NAACP says one of his main objectives is to ensure that young blood is infused into the organization.
"Our job as elder leaders is to develop a bench," says Duane Reed. "That bench has to be younger folk that have some degree of continuity in building toward a mature model.MORE »
Groundbreaking Black children’s book finally reaches the stage
Imagine writing and illustrating a simple picture book that still leaves significant marks on society's literary landscape 50 years later. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats, written in 1962 and awarded the Caldecott Medal the following year for most distinguished picture book, has finally stepped up on stage with this first production of a theatrical performance in a world premiere by Stages Theatre Company (STC) of Hopkins, Minnesota. MORE »
How to avoid credit cards' dangers
The college search is a big step for a teen. By the age of 17, not only are acceptance letters flooding your mailbox, but credit card applications are also sneaking their way in with the good news. In fact some of the applications come with pre-approved cards, embossed with your first and last name. It's easy to feel important and rich, but it's also dangerous. MORE »
Teens with chronic health conditions turn to specialized St. Paul health clinic
Beau Karlen, 20, grips a dynamometer,
a tool that measures muscle strength in
the hand and is used to diagnose disease
and measure progress, among other things.
Photo courtesy of I.EM.PHIT.
Following a workout, Beau Karlen, 20, hurls a ball at one of his fitness instructors at the Institute for Exercise Medicine & Prevention.MORE »
