Recent Stories

• Lift Every Voice

  by Enoch Naklen and City Council Member Rita Joseph

  YC writer Enoch Naklen and New York City Council Member Rita Joseph collaborated on this op-ed in conjunction with the passage of two resolutions that CM Joseph introduced. Those resolutions mandate that all NYC high schools support a student newspaper and provide ongoing data about those journalism programs.

• Finding My Own Christianity

  by Anonymous

  Names have been changed. My parents both emigrated from South Korea when they were young and met during college at a Pentecostal church in Queens. They took missionary trips to Africa and Guatemala to spread the word of God and got married at the same church where they met and we still attend all together today.

• The Greatest Thing I Ever Learned

  by Grace Andino

  I started volunteering at my local nursing home when I was 10 years old, but I wasn’t always sure why. I’d grown up with the expectation that you do good things so others see you as a good person, but doing good deeds didn’t always convince me that I was good enough.

• Hellfire and Homophobia

  by Luck

  Names have been changed.   As a little kid, I hung around girls and envied the ones with perfect, straight hair. When I complimented their hair, they’d say, “You’re weird.”  Boys noticed too, and starting when I was 8, they called me “gay.”