Click on the image to view the eighth episode of this season’s “RJ TV,” on on September 13, 2010.
Watch Residents’ Journal‘syouth instructor Kari Lydersen, discussing a summer teen project with We The People Media’s “Urban Youth International Journalism Program” youth reporter Trevor Hill.
Young Chicagoans debated with City officials in February and March about the provision of summer jobs.
They demonstrated again earlier this month at the State of Illinois building to ask the governor and state legislature for funds to provide 16- to 19-year-old African American and Hispanic young people with employment this summer. Quintana Woodridge, a resident of the Ida B. Wells development and a youth organizer for the Youth First Campaign of the Southwest Youth Collaborative, said the young people were rallying for the city to provide the same number of jobs as last year. Read more »