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                                        Ambassador works to end the cycle of violence after personal experience | Youth Rise Milwaukee Magazine
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                                        Youth Rise Milwaukee Magazine. About Youth Rise Magazine. Ambassador works to end the cycle of violence after…. August 19, 2016. August 19, 2016. Local residents sit outside their houses enjoying the breeze on a Monday evening when a young lady in a yellow shirt comes up to them looking to learn about the issues and concerns they see in their neighborhood. This young lady is 18-year-old Dontazsha Duncan. Safe Zones is a city-funded program that works to improve the wellbeing of neighborhoods that are sev...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Poet and activist steps up | Youth Rise Milwaukee Magazine
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                                        Youth Rise Milwaukee Magazine. About Youth Rise Magazine. Poet and activist steps up. August 19, 2016. August 19, 2016. Racism still exists in 2016 in big ways, according to Thomas Leonard. The recent graduate of Wauwatosa West High School knows firsthand the effects of verbal racism. His experience was witnessed by his fellow students who were willing to support him. Photo by Ni’Sea Thurman-Wamubu). Can someone tell this kid that it’s not the 1960s anymore? Leonard led a demonstration in a open area at ...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Teen recovered from drug addiction, advocates for local youth | Youth Rise Milwaukee Magazine
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                                        Youth Rise Milwaukee Magazine. About Youth Rise Magazine. Teen recovered from drug addiction, advocates for local youth. August 18, 2016. August 19, 2016. Arthur Clements died and didn’t even notice. I’m a normally energetic person, and I was just way slower. When they talked to me my words were slurred, Clements said of how his parents found out he started using drugs. They first thought he was on marijuana but later found out it was K2. And when I came up it was like I didn’t even know that just happen...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Meet the team | Youth Rise Milwaukee Magazine
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                                        Youth Rise Milwaukee Magazine. About Youth Rise Magazine. Adia Rogers, 16. Adia Rogers was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by her parents Sherri and Derrick Rogers. She is only 16 years old and will be attending Milwaukee School of Languages for her junior year of high school this year. Adia has made it a point to strive for her goals academically and physically, which is nothing less than her biggest dream. Charde Brown, 15. Damion Harris, 16. Darion McDade, 16. Donald Beamon, 17. Donald Beamon ...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Teenage girl stands as park peacemaker despite any tensions | Youth Rise Milwaukee Magazine
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                                        Youth Rise Milwaukee Magazine. About Youth Rise Magazine. Teenage girl stands as park peacemaker despite any tensions. August 19, 2016. August 19, 2016. Nautica Whitelow may be only 15 years old. She may have a lot of things going on at home, but she is a young lady dedicated to making a change to a local park. They’re supposed to be here to protect us and make us feel safe, she said. But how are you going to ask for a solution when we don’t even feel safe around the police? These police don’t even...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        About Youth Rise Magazine | Youth Rise Milwaukee Magazine
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                                        Youth Rise Milwaukee Magazine. About Youth Rise Magazine. About Youth Rise Magazine. Youth Rise Magazine is a youth-led, community-based digital, web publication where young people age 14-19 in the central city of Milwaukee originate, report, create, produce, design and edit all content. In the summer of 2016, it piloted and operated as part of the Urban Underground Earn and Learn summer employment program. The Youth Rise Magazine pilot of summer 2016 has been based on the principles of setting high expe...
                                     
                                    
                                        
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                                        Youth Council offers platform for youth voices | Youth Rise Milwaukee Magazine
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                                        Youth Rise Milwaukee Magazine. About Youth Rise Magazine. Youth Council offers platform for youth voices. August 19, 2016. August 19, 2016. Sitting in an office at Urban Underground, surrounded by contagious laughter and young people doing similar work within their communities, was an environment where Payton Wade seemed to feel right at home. Wade, the City of Milwaukee Youth Council (MYC) Representative for District 7, in Wisconsin, tries to create more opportunities for youth to have their voices heard. 
                                     
                         
                            
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