Featured Stories
Spiritual Quest Proves Empowering
Before the divorce, I guess you could say my family was my religion…We never went to church, but the one strength we had was our own collective set of ideals and morals — we were our own belief system.
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Young Voices: 28 Days of Remembrance
February is Black History Month, and I am not aware of any events going on in my school — I’m not being taught about what blacks have done to contribute to the modernization of civilization, or how they have paved the way for the civil rights of us all.
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Abstinence is Respect for Yourself
I always remember believing in God. But I thought He was just a guy, far away, kind of hanging out. After my parents divorced, my dad left us, remarried and moved to Michigan. On the outside, I pretended that everything was OK, but on the inside, I just wanted to escape. I felt completely abandoned and unloved by my father, and my self-esteem took a nose dive.
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News
110 Degrees Parent-Guardian Dinner
VOICES is pleased to invite the parents and guardians of the 110º Magazine youth staff to a Parent-Guardian dinner on Thursday, December 13, 2007, at 6 p.m at our main offices located at 48 E. Pennington.
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The 110º Project seeks to strengthen the cognitive, artistic, emotional, civic, and professional skills of local low-income youth. The best national research tells us that young people who are consistently nurtured in these key youth development areas are much more likely to become healthy, emotionally resilient adults who are economically independent and active in the [...]Read more...
110 Faces
Nneka OkonkwoNneka Okonkwo, fourteen, attends Tucson High Magnet School as a freshman. She feels youth should speak for their rights, do their best in all aspects of their lives, and she loves to read. She is African-American and Nigerian, was born in Los Angeles, moved here, and now loves Tucson unconditionally.
Recent Blogs
We work hard here at Voices, but we like to be stylish, too! So on Thursday, March 6, the staff members of 110 Degrees Magazine held their first ever clothes swap. Clothes were piled high in the basement lounge of our downtown office, and after rounds of trying on clothes and echoes of “That is […]
» Read more...Meeting Deadlines, New Additions
With just over a month left before deadline, things are hectic here at Voices. Nearly every weekday afternoon, our office and shared space with City High School is filled with youth staff members hunched over laptops, typing furiously and discussing story angles. Meanwhile, other staff members are grabbing cameras and tape recorders, on their way […]
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Busy! Busy! Busy! The deadline for the first draft is quickly approaching here at Voices, and everyone is working away! The first draft is really the time where people begin to see a good outline of their stories. 1,000 words sound like an awful lot, but with everyone’s’ ideas overflowing for their stories usually the writing needs to be cut down some.
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