Adapting to new situations and life changes can be tough for adults, let alone young people. Here’s what the writers at The kNOw had to
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.
So just hug me, let your arms/Fall perfectly where they belong
What am I to a cockroach?/Or what is a roach to me?
On June 9, 2009, senior student at Edison High School Jesse Andrews delivered the following commencement speech. Jesse is a Youth Journalist for The kNOw and will attend Morehouse College in the fall.
This is the time when the sun/Descends below the horizon—the ground/Is cool, dry, hearty and beautiful with/Thick golden hairs—of all distant things