A girl wanted to be a gang member until her cousin got killed in a drive-by shooting.
That night I started to think about what would happen if I became a gangbanger. People in crews tag, steal and use drugs. But people in gangs do more dangerous things like sell guns and kill. If I kept on this path, I was going to end up like my cousin. Dead.
César Chávez fought to improve the lives of farm workers like 16-year-old Julian’s grandfather.
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Essay contest winners wrote about their parents’ trust, their mother and brother.
These are letters we received about stories that appeared in the May – June 2010 issue of L.A. Youth.
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Ha Young, 15, was worried about the first day since she didn’t know anyone.
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