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YO! Youth Outlook is an award-winning literary journal of youth life in the Bay Area. Featuring in-depth reporting pieces and first-person essays, comic strips and poetry pages, YO! is the communication outlet for youth who feel their voice and visions need to be seen and heard. YO! is a bridge to the world of youth expression.
YO! chronicles the world through the eyes and voice of young people - between the ages of 14 and 25. From reporting pieces on Palestinian American youth in the Bay Area to interviews with gospel hip hop bands; from photo essays by homeless youth to journal entries from temp workers in Silicon Valley, YO! offers a unique window into California's youth subcultures.
YO! has a national distribution of 25,000 magazines printed monthly (10 times a year through the school season), a local access monthly TV show -- YO!TV, numerous partnerships with local and national radio broadcasts and an annual expo of youth communicators - from graffiti artists to filmmakers to incarcerated youth. YO! stories also run nationally and internationally over the Pacific News Service wire.

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http://www.youthoutlook.org

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KMEL

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You Don't Have To Be a Doorman -- We got a Black President!

Where Were You?

November 4th 2008, where were you when you heard the news? I was walking down Brannan St. in San Francisco, leaving 330 Ritch with my best friend, we had just heard that Obama won Virginia as we stood in line waiting to get into the after work lounge-bar. The line wasn’t moving and as we stood stagnant and took in our surroundings, we both decided that we could find a better Obama party, you know, preferably one where we wouldn’t be the only Black people there.… Continue

Posted on November 14, 2008 at 3:51pm —

Youth Vote Today, Majority Vote Tomorrow

After months and months of working behind the scenes of what seemed like a myth: the youth vote, the driving force of the Presidential election, helped to usher in a new President and different path for the American people.

Since January the media asked the question: Will the youth vote elect the next American President? And on November 4th the answer was loud and clear.

According to CIRCLE (The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and… Continue

Posted on November 14, 2008 at 3:30pm —

In Hope of a Second Renaissance

Recently I saw a video of Kalle Lasn, the founder of the controversial ,Adbusters magazine, who stands against the mindless consumerism and mass produced culture that has given America the notoriety it currently has in the world. It was depressing to see how shocked the talking head lady was that someone could even imagine a world where Americans weren’t “magically entitled” to consume 75% of the wor… Continue

Posted on November 14, 2008 at 3:30pm —