From a series of workshops with freelance photographer Joseph Smooke, The kNOw youth share a special video collage of their photography capturing everyday images of West and Central Fresno.
Author: The kNOw Youth Media
The kNOw works to support and equip young people with the journalism and advocacy skills they need to tell their stories and the stories of their communities.
In 2006, over 25 youth began participating in weekly after-school writing workshops where they congregated in the hallway of a two-story building in West Fresno and learned the essentials of creating media and telling their stories. The group evolved over the next five years and is now proudly recognized as The kNOw Youth Media.
Through our program, we create opportunities for our youth participants, who in turn create long-term positive change in their communities. Our approach weaves youth development and youth media innovation to produce our biannual youth publication, multimedia projects, and community forums.
The kNOw began as a project of New America Media, which was the country’s first and largest national collaboration and advocate of 2000 ethnic news organizations. In 2018 The kNOw became a project of Youth Leadership Institute.
Dear Family, For many years, people of color were not counted as a full person in the United States… The Census gives everyone a voice,
By Himself I remember a time when I was at school and there were three of us. We were walking around the school and we
Breathing in and breathing out/It’s hard to breath when I’m in doubt
I woke up feeling great, knowing it was the last day of school before Winter Break. Who goes to school on the last day of