Youth
Next generation's struggle
This is a dialogue with my daughter Thryn Hare (Kathryn). Thryn has been named one of OutFront’s “25 leaders under 25”, a strong activist for Gay / Lesbian / Transgender rights at only 15 years old. I couldn’t be more proud.MORE »
Campaign launched to address abysmal Indian attendance rates
When Roxanne Broden's daughter started school, Broden didn't understand how important the first years are. It was just kindergarten, what was the big deal if her daughter missed some days? Broden was young herself, she had her daughter when she was a teen. Now her kid is older, and she worries that those early absences will impact her girl's academic future.MORE »
Journalism camp teaches importance of free speech
For the past 10 years, high school students from across the Twin Cities have been coming to the University of St. Thomas to attend ThreeSixty Journalism’s summer camps.MORE »
OPINION | Searching for roots: Cut off from his Mexican ancestry, a teen wants to know more
I am half Mexican, though I may not look the part: Blue eyes, dark brown hair, tan skin, but not quite dark enough to be recognized as Latino.MORE »
OPINION | Can’t you take a joke? Recognizing racism in the jokes we tell and assumptions we make
I can go through a whole day without being reminded of my race. I can walk through the wide halls of Burnsville High School, talking with my friends of various backgrounds, forgetting for a time that there is only one black teacher in the entire building and that none of my advanced placement classes has more than four minority students, most of them Asian.MORE »
OPINION | Knowing who I am
When friends assumed she was Caucasian, Sinthia thought hard about what it means to be Latina
After the first week of volleyball try-outs ended two summers ago, a few close friends and I headed to Subway to eat lunch.MORE »
Girls in Real Life: Moving from bad attitude to engagement in St. Paul
“I used to have a bad attitude,” said Janaysia Jaco, an eighth grader at Murray Jr. High, in Saint Paul. That was before she started the Girls in Real Life (GIRL) program, where she meets every week in a new program designed to give young girls empowerment and leadership skills. Someone told Jaco that GIRL might be a good fit for her, so she joined.MORE »
THEATER REVIEW | Blank Slate Theatre's "Analyzing the Bully" looks at peer abuse from the bully's perspective
I am not a bully. Despite my stint in fifth grade of pushing fourth-graders into snowdrifts and calling them stupid, I have never been, nor could I ever be, a bully.
At least that’s what the doctors from blank slate theatre’s original production of Analyzing the Bully told me. Bullies, to them, can only be males under the age of 20 who are athletes, bigots and homophobes. Bullies always use force, wear torn jeans and black shirts, and have no reason for their “random” acts of violence.MORE »
Real food and the Minneapolis public schools
Perhaps you were thinking that in this crazy world we live in things never change for the better? Well, if you are a student or a parent in the Minneapolis Public School (MPS) district, you have something to look forward to.MORE »
Unique school educates two generations, helping young mothers graduate and parent their children are priorities
While walking down the halls of Broadway High School at Longfellow, where Lutunji Abram, M.A. works, one would think it’s like any other school. The walls display students’ projects, and the halls are mostly quiet except when passing open classroom doors where students and teachers are working.MORE »
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