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Getting into one of the elite institutions known as the Ivy League is an experience only a select few get to experience. Being accepted into more than one is reserved for the best of the best. But getting an acceptance letter from all eight of them? That’s a rarity that surely has to be celebrated. […]

For a long time now, I’ve stood by a belief: the only people that refer to Chicago as “Chi-Town” are either tourists, distant suburbanites, or rappers looking for a shortcut. And I’ll never refer to the city as “Chiraq” and side-eye anyone that does. But I’m not against all nicknames for the city that raised me, just […]

This past February, an Austin police officer broke several protocols and confronted 17-year-old David Joseph after multiple residents filed complaints of suspicious activity. Officer Geoffrey Freeman was the first to arrive and chose to confront the teen without waiting for backup. Shortly thereafter, the naked and unarmed teen was shot dead. The Austin Police Department has […]

Abdi Mohamed, 17, of Salt Lake City, Utah, is currently in a coma and fighting for his life after being shot three times by police this past weekend. Mohamed was reportedly holding a broomstick when police arrived and was shot after being ordered to drop it, according to New York Daily News. According to authorities, police […]

A black teenager was killed by police in Austin, Texas on Monday morning. David Joseph, 17, was naked, unarmed and “acting erratically” when he encountered officers that received multiple calls to the scene, according to the Austin Police Department.

On January 25, 2016, the United States Supreme Court has decided that states have to place a ban on mandatory death-in-prison sentences for juveniles retroactively.

No good deed goes unpunished in the age of Zero Tolerance school policies. In Garland, TX,  two 7th-grade girls, Alexis Kyle and Indiyah Rush, faced punishment for sharing an inhaler, FOX4 reported. During a gym class last Tuesday, Kyle was suffering an asthma attack. Rush, who also has asthma, saw her struggling to breathe, and […]

Infamous “affluenza” teenager who killed four through vehicular manslaughter was arrested in Mexico Monday evening.

By Eve Ewing It’s 11:20 at night. I have a lot of work to finish and I haven’t even eaten dinner yet, but like so many of my friends, my head is in Baltimore, and I’m caught in the same cycle: TV news, Twitter, Facebook, texting, repeat. Trying to piece together stories as I can, […]

Tania Harris, 18, suffered two gunshot wounds after being shot by police yesterday. Police claim that she was holding a knife but her family disputes police claims. From Fox 9: A Robbinsdale, Minn. police officer shot a high school student after an “unwanted person” call was made at an apartment complex early Thursday evening. According […]

From Alternet: A horrifying new story from the Marshall Project tells the story of John, a 17-year-old, 140-pound inmate in Michigan, who was raped by his 200-pound cellmate after being housed in an adult prison. It was not the last time he would be sexually assaulted. The piece is titled, “A Boy Among Men: What happens when you […]

This is selfie culture gone horribly wrong. Sixteen-year-old Maxwell Morton has been charged in connection with the death of Ryan Mangan, also sixteen. Morton was charged after a woman came forward and claimed that her son received a Snapchat from Morton showing a selfie with Mangan’s shot, slumped over body. The woman claimed that the […]