22 Million New Votes by the Year 2020 According to the most recent United States census numbers, there are roughly 22 million teens who will be eligible to vote in…
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Please be advised that the following video clips contain explicit language. As I have been reflecting on the outcome of the presidential election, my mind returned many times to the…
I’ve been steering The LAMP for 9 years (next year will be our 10th!), and through that time we have had to define what our work encompasses many different ways….
The following represents testimony delivered to the New York City Council Committee on Youth Services during an Oversight Hearing on Out-of-School, Out-of-Work Young Adults on November 22, 2016. My name…
During the last few years, I’ve been heartbroken by stories about young people choosing paths of violent extremism. I’m talking about people like Dylann Roof, the young white supremacist whose…
Regardless of how you voted yesterday, I think we can all agree that it has been a bruising election season. Now that the results are in, I want to thank…
“My iPhone has more migrant rights than I do.” So said journalist and activist Jose Antonio Vargas at the Digital Media and Learning conference this past weekend in Irvine, California….
Here at The LAMP, we have a great deal of respect, admiration and love for the art form known as standup comedy. I consider myself a stand-up junkie, having logged…
I recently had the pleasure of attending an event with NationSwell featuring David Axelrod, best known for his role in helping get Barack Obama elected to two terms as President….
These days, young people who want to learn to code have a number of options: Codecademy, Girls Who Code, Black Girls Code, #YesWeCode, Code.org and others. All of this work is…
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