Fridays For Future protest, image by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash By Aida El-Hajjar, age 12 The Conference of the Parties, or COP, is an annual gathering of world leaders to discuss one issue that has occupied billions of minds: climate change. This year’s COP26 was...
Image by Markus Spiske on Pexels By Hudson McKinley-Uss, age 15 Older generations grew up during the time of the Cold War and had a future that was very uncertain—living with the threat of nuclear warfare, hearing things like “mutually assured destruction”...
By Oscar Tomasello, age 12 The minimum age required to vote was lowered from 21 to 18 in 1970. Now 50 years later, activists around the country are pushing to lower the voting age again. Tyler Okeke, a 19-year-old organizer with the nonprofit Power California, told...
Around the country, students demand action to prevent more school shootings. Eleanor Hedges Duroy, age 15 A March for Our Lives, a youth-centered movement, has taken root across the nation. Students everywhere are voicing their right to attend classes...
By SADIE PRICE-ELLIOTT, age 13 Sadie speaks with Qalvy Grainzvolt, youth leader and clergyman at the Shinnyo Center. PHOTO: Jonathan Tupas On September 20, I attended the Shinnyo Lantern Floating for Peace ceremony, a day organized by the Shinnyo-en organization and...
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