This past summer, 16-year-old Selena Garcia arrived at the writing workshop at Represent, a quarterly magazine by and for youth in foster care. She was in constant motion: spinning in…
November is National Disability Month and we have approximately 2.1 million children with disabilities, of which close to 600 000 children of school going age are out of school and thus…
Essena O’Neill has had enough…and now she’s exposing the ugly truth behind the #filter and the flash like you’ve never seen before. Meet Essena O’Neill, a beautiful 18-year-old Australian bombshell….
A South African man who gave Rugby World Cup final tickets worth R25 000 to a New Zealand couple said he knew they would have a phenomenal time. United…
Anti e-toll group Outa has launched a new “e-toll defensive umbrella campaign” to provide legal support to members summonsed for non-payment of e-toll fees. This comes as the SA National…
A black man’s encounter with a cop is going viral, but this story’s got a different twist than what you’re used to seeing in the media. Steven Hildreth Jr. was…
Michigan high school students are redefining the term “extracurricular activity.” In addition to club meetings, band practices and football games, University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy teens are…
As stated by Laurie Halse Anderson, “There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh,…
Like many kids, 6-year-old Alexis has big dreams. But while some kids dream about defying gravity as an astronaut, or being the star ballerina in the Nutcracker, Alexis dreams of…
Two students with Down Syndrome at Central Bucks High School South in Pennsylvania were crowned this year’s Homecoming King and Queen. To say Nick McGee got excited about the…
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