On April 6, 2009, just days before his twelfth birthday, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, a sixth grade student at New Leadership Charter School in Springfield, MA, was found hung from an extension cord that he used to wrap around his neck.
Category: Community
As part of the YO! Youth Outlook Blog-A-Thon on the topic of modern love, two Southeast Asian female youth share their perspectives on the evolution of gender roles as witnessed within their own family and culture.
Proposition 8, a California ballot initiative banning gay marriages, has polarized many communities. As part of the YO! Youth Outlook Blog-A-Thon on the topic of modern love, youth journalist, Jaleesa Vickers, shares her point of view on Prop 8.
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
Have you ever wondered how different cultures celebrate the holiday season? Learn more in this video.