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The kNOw Youth Media

The kNOw Youth Media

teaching youth to tell their stories and the stories of their communities

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    • Our Future (2024)
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    • Behind Our Masks (2021)
    • Not So Golden (2020)
Arts & Entertainment

The Provider And The Roach

06/17/200907/27/2011 The kNOw Youth Media

What am I to a cockroach?/Or what is a roach to me?

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Education

We Are The Class of 2009: My Graduation Speech

06/16/200903/23/2015 The kNOw Youth Media

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.

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Arts & Entertainment

Bountiful Harvest / Choke

06/08/200907/27/2011 The kNOw Youth Media

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

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Arts & Entertainment

Short Poems

06/08/200907/27/2011 The kNOw Youth Media

My heart hates my soul./My mind hates my spirit./I’m corrupted.

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Lifestyle

I Took You For Granted, Now You Are Gone

06/01/200907/20/2011 The kNOw Youth Media

Pushing Others Away At a very young age, I developed a bad habit. Every time someone I loved left me, I would completely shut that

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