Do you know a high school senior of Hispanic heritage with a minimum of a 3.0 grade point average?

The 2009 Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards is offering new laptops, educational grants, and trips for deserving young role models (of Hispanic heritage) who have proven themselves in the following categories:

• The Arts
• Education
• Leadership
• Lifetime Achievement
• Literature
• Math and Science
• Sports
• Vision

For more information and eligibility requirements check out: www.hispanicheritage.org

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The Compton Career Link Worksource Center is collaborating with the Employment Development Department to host the 6th Annual Hire-A-Youth Job and Career Fair on Thursday, April 24th from 11:00am- 3:00pm for youth ages 16-24.

This is the perfect opportunity to secure employment, especially for summer job seekers!

If you or someone you know is looking for a job, dress for success, take several resumes, and get to this job fair to meet and interview with potential employers.

Compton Career Link Work Source Center
700 N. Bullis rd.
Compton, CA 90221
(310) 605-3069 or (310) 223-2907  Read more... (99 words, estimated 24 secs reading time)

It always brightens my day to share information that empowers and inspires. I received an email from a friend from HU who is one of the master minds behind an essay contest for high school students designed to create community service projects that promote progress, unity, and change.

We always hear about the negative things happening in the hood   and not enough about the good!  This  is an awesome opportunity to engage young minds and to get the youth actively involved with making a real difference in our communities.  Make sure that you pass this information on.  Here are the details:  Read more... (586 words, 10 images, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)

another cool email forward (thanks Kamilah):)

If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious stories about how hard things were when they were growing up; with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning... uphill BOTH ways... yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that I'm over the
ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy!

I mean, compared to my childhood,

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