My Fall 2009 semester at Howard University was like taking a school picture with a Jheri curl. It should have never happened. And when it was over, I looked around, as if to ask, “Who can I blame for this mess?”.

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Side Hustlin'- The first episode of Youth Radio's series about those extra money getting hustles we get into when our pockets get empty. New Options Host Venus Morris interviews Howard University Senior Pendarvis Harshaw about what he did to make ends meet during the last school year.

 

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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.

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Friday February 27th was the first of three days the Washington DC convention center would play host to the Powershift Conference 2009. The environmental conference featured lectures, workshops, job opportunities, and performances by recording artist Santagold and the legendary Roots band. Read more...

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Correspondent Pendarvis Harshaw sends us this dispatch from Washington D.C.

Featuring words of wisdom from Prof. Cornell West.

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