YOUTH SCENE

by Nathan Anderson

"Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like"

They use loudspeakers, beat improvised plastic drums, hold and wave signs that read "We Are The 99%" to voice their grievances at whomever will listen, but mostly toward those on Wall Street — or in this case, the financial institutions that line LaSalle St. — for it was "unethical practices" by Wall Street that caused America's economic downturn.

resource: wikipedia

"Youth in Black History: Barbara Johns"

Barbara Johns was just 16 years old in 1951, yet she was a civil rights activist that initiated a student strike at Moton High School in Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia. She ultimately played an important role in what came to known as the historic U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education.