Youth will lead the way to same sex marriage equality

Same sex marriage bans were overturned in California. Good! It's only a matter of time before the last bands of discrimination are lifted in the U.S. That includes yes, states such as Mississippi and Alabama. This column by Leonard Pitts Jr, from last month, takes...

Did NYPD police overstep their authority, kill unarmed man 18

Ramarley Graham shot dead by NYPD cops as they enter his home without warrant New York City, NY - As you can see by the video, a man enters his Bronx home as NYPD police are in pursuit and forcibly enter his...

Youth, Commitment and Life-Owning Lies

The problem with people making life decisions when they are very young is that they do not come from the position of adequate knowledge. They know only what they have been taught; and if what they have learned were incomplete or corrupt, then it will take them a long time to...

Be part of the 'Media and the Riots' big debate

Marc Wadsworth at The-Latest.Com We all have views about whether or not the shocking events in our English inner cities of August were covered in a fair and balanced way by big media. Many Black people, particularly young ones, I have spoken with think the “riots”...

Crisis deepens for UK's young

Record numbers of A-level candidates are expected to end up without a university place today – as the latest unemployment numbers underline the bleak prospects of them finding a job. More than one in five of...

Muslims: Europe's New Jews?

They inhabit self-imposed ghettoes, subject to derision and worse, the perennial targets of far-right thugs and populist politicians of all persuasions. They are mostly confined to menial jobs. They are accused of spreading crime, terrorism and disease, of being backward...

Support for Human Rights Law Review in Scotland

EDINBURGH—International human rights education group Youth for Human Rights International today announced its support for the Scottish Parliament's review of the law to bring it in line with the European...

Denile of Service Part 2

80% of 16 and 17 year-olds work at some point before graduation. 1 61% of teenagers work during the school year.2 Youth pay taxes but have no say about how much or how that tax money is spent. Youth will be deeply affected by decisions about...

Denial of service: Why can’t teenagers have the right to vote?

  Every day all across America young people get home from school and after grabbing something from the refrigerator to snack on, head right back out the door. Most go to practice a sport or hang out with friends....

Young Philadelphia demand Egyptian president Mubarak to step down

http://twurl.nl/3w0iit  Approximately 250 protesters marched from 22nd and Market streets inPhiladelphia to City hall in support of the Egyptian people callingfor the ouster of the current president. the overwhelming theme of todays protest was freedom, stating 30 years...

Kelowna Restaurant Supports Local Youth Volunteering in Africa

Ricardo's Mediterranean Kitchen, an award-winning family-run restaurant just north of Kelowna, B.C., is holding a special community fundraiser to support Youth Challenge International (YCI) on November 3rd. YCI is a program empowering youth around the world to create...

Zoom, zoom, zzzzzz: Aging gracefully & what "cool" actually means

Young and cool or old and lame? Which do you want to be? Judging from the rocket-like sales of face smoothers and rod stiffeners it would seem the answer is fairly clear. Nobody wants to be old and lame, even when...

York Scouts half-way to John o' Groats

LIVERPOOL—A group of fourteen Scouts, Explorer Scouts and Scout Leaders from York, North Yorkshire reached the mid-way point of their journey from Land's End to John o' Groats as they crossed the River Mersey...

Sex Parties or what happens when “youth” actually votes

  Back in high school I ran for vice-president. It was a grand affair - posters, buttons, giveaways, debates, hallway commercials, polling-station goons, the whole shebang.  Leaving aside the rather...

Butterfinger Dreams: When your past comes back to sell you

      Around about 1992 I became ridiculously convinced of my own wonderfulness. Just a few years removed from high school, I had (by that point) tucked some college under my belt, gotten a...

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