WASHINGTON D.C./NEW MEXICO-- I must admit, when I first stepped onto Howard University’s campus I was unsure of what to expect. I was in a huge, brand new city – one so different from my home in New Mexico. Would the adjustment be too much to handle? Would I get along with my classmates? Would I find people who cared about the same social issues as I did?

As part of KUNM’s Youth Radio Collective, I learned to look around the community I lived in to find problems young people were facing. Howard University, a Historically Black University (HBCU) in Washington, DC, has had a long and difficult history with the community that surrounds it. I worried that I would no longer have a connection to the area in which I lived.

The Discovery Channel's recent two-part documentary "Gang Wars: Oakland" has been the talk of Tha Town. We asked the founder of the scraper bike movement, Baybe-Champ, about what he thought about the controversial mini-series.

On Tuesday a transit worker and toll collector were shot and killed at the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. Arrested earlier today was 46 year-old Nathan Burris. Burris was the boyfriend of 51 year-old Debbie Ross—the toll collector killed—also killed was 58 year old Ersie Everett. Burris was arrested in the Sierra Mountains after a statewide bulletin for his capture was issued.

By: Erin Bilir

At 12:08 on the day of the Columbine shooting, I was sitting in a playground sandbox playing with my Barbie dolls, not at all aware that five minutes away shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were committing suicide.
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