Editor’s Note: Since 1996, The Beat Within has published a weekly magazine and conducted writing workshops in juvenile halls in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. This week one of our workshop topics dealt with the shooting death of four police officers in Oakland last weekend. We asked the young writers to share their feelings [...]
Bullying affects everyone! In this video, hear stories from two youth on their experiences of bullying and being bullied.
If you missed our youth forum last week, on the topic of School Violence/Safety, you missed a great night of young people thinking and working together to make their schools safer! We had at least over 100 people in attendance, three media outlets, along with several elected officials, including three members from the school board [...]
In this video, The kNOw youth explore the reasons for school violence and whether students feel safe at school.
It was my goddaughter’s confirmation party. We were all at her house. It was her parents, brothers, sisters, her sister’s boyfriend, me, the homies, Monique, Renea, Sheila, Kaylan, and some other people. We were all watching a movie and then we started to eat some beef and rice. It was really good. After eating, we [...]
