I beat myself up today. I blamed myself for every little bad thing that happened to me, or to anyone else. Knowing entirely that none
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.
A simple photograph can hold wonders. It can carry some of the most jubilant memories a person may have, or it can recall some of the most tragic. Even though we are in the age of cell phone cameras and digital cameras, there will always be intrinsic beauty in the simplicity of a photo, taken through a roll of film, developed in time.
In yesterday’s meeting, after being inspired by a book about the story of three men who grew up in the inner-city and made a pact to
The topic of last week’s Open Workshop was, you guessed it, sex! Sex ed! Myths about sex! Youth views on sex! So after a lengthy
Right now, I’ve only got about $1.12 in my wallet. I don’t really like money. I never really have. But no matter how hard I try to avoid it, it always comes back to slap me in the face. It always shouts out “You need me. You want me. You can’t do a damn thing without me.”