NABJ Announces New Founders’ Scholarships
Scholarships Named in Honor of Founders Les Payne and DeWayne Wickham, Due April 1.
High School Students Learn Journalism Basics
High school students in the 2010 Urban Journalism Workshop learn to report, write and broadcast news, entertainment, sports, business and cultural issues. They were trained by professional journalists from leading media companies in the basics of real-time print, radio, television, and digital journalism over the course of eight consecutive Saturdays.
Dispatches from Philly
Student and former Urban Journalism Workshop participant Juan Diasgranados attended the 2011 NABJ Convention and Career Fair in Philadelphia. He shared his experience at UJWonline.org.
Straight Up: Urban Voice! Spring 2012
DC's Majestic Howard Theater Gets a Second Life
Once a mainstay along DC’s “Black Broadway,” the majestic Howard Theater, fell into disrepair after the 1968 Martin Luther King riots decimated the neighborhood. In April, after a few failed […]
Keeping the Dream Alive? Teens Passive about 2012 Voting
Voting is one of many exciting steps along the way to becoming an adult. Straight Up Urban Voice’s Amuche Nwafor, discovered that voting intimidates some teens at Northwestern High School, where […]
Trayvon Martin Protestors Come to DC
Outraged over the death of a 17-year-old boy of African descent, who was wearing a hoodie in a Florida neighborhood, hundreds of protestors flocked to Washington, DC in mid-March. Straight Up: […]
