With our country under siege, we at The LAMP have decided our revolutionary actions are in the work that we do with our students and educators. Check out some of…
Youth Archives - The LAMP
During a time when our freedom of speech (or rather just our pure existence) is threatened, it’s important to shine a light on the people who capture the essence of…
The consequences of so-called “fake news” have been writ large for many Americans over the last few weeks. When people click, share and make decisions based on media content without…
“If we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.” – United States President Barack Obama A new Stanford study found that 82% of middle-schoolers can’t distinguish…
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…
By age 11, Marley Dias is already a seasoned media activist. Frustrated at the lack of books featuring characters to whom she could relate – books with subjects other than “white…
“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….
Add this to the list of superlatives for Election 2016: With less than one week to go, the first presidential debate is drawing comparisons to the Super Bowl. Viewership of…
Meet Oriana, a sophomore at EPIC North High School in Queens, who has been participating in The LAMP’s Photography as Activism program this past semester: “I really enjoyed creating stories…
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