Survive and Thrive

Survive and Thrive

  • Summer 2021
    • African Immigrants in America
      • African immigrants return to their roots
      • Balancing American lifestyle with family traditions
      • Entrepreneurship while adjusting in a foreign land
      • African Immigrants Seek Better Life In Nation’s Capital
    • Moving to the Adirondacks
      • Small businesses thrive year round
      • Housing crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic
      • Protecting Adirondack land and lakes
      • The overcrowding in the Adirondacks
    • Farmers Market Accessibility
      • Local Farmers Could Be Solution To Food Insecurity
      • Farmers Markets Just Got More Accessible
      • College Students Struggle with Food Access
      • Culturally Relevant Foods Grown by Young Adults Hit Local Farmers Markets
    • America’s Abandoned Places
      • Transforming America’s vacant spaces
      • Pennsylvania town goes from ghost town to apple orchard
      • Maine ruin turns to concrete canvas
      • Art Alley provides community space for creation
    • Farming in the City
      • What you need to know about farmers markets
      • What is urban agriculture?
      • How to build your own urban garden
      • Boston gardens are bringing awareness to urban agriculture
    • P-Town Film Fest Goes Hybrid
      • Outdoor screenings remain key festival component
      • Provincetown Film Fest comes back with virtual bang
      • Best documentary audience award proves even split
      • Intergenerational, international romance resides in Fox’s Sublet
    • LA-tina Business Owners
      • Communities come together to support for small businesses
      • Keeping in touch with roots in small business is essential in Los Angeles
      • LA County community sees importance in Latina-owned businesses
      • Latina small business owners cultural, social challenges in LA County
    • Discovering Russian Muslims
      • A Way to Oneself Through Islam and Marriage
      • Martyrs for History: Islamic Tatar National Movement
      • Pursuing the Lost Heaven
      • Being a Muslim in Russia
    • Air Pollution: The Silent Killer
      • Somerville residents confront pollution along I-93
      • Somerville’s environmental justice communities deal with brunt of pollution
      • Somerville leaders and advocates push for noise barriers along I-93
      • Air pollution inequality growing in Massachusetts
    • Public Art and Public Health
      • Protests planned over controversial Columbus statue
      • Boston’s ‘Joy Agenda’ plan seeks to heal the city through art
      • Rethinking Appeal to the Great Spirit
      • Improving a community through public art
    • Waterbury’s Opioid Epidemic
      • Overdose Response Technicians attempt to save lives
      • Waterbury Health Department Fights Overdose Epidemic
      • Volunteers help fight Opioid Epidemic, despite funding concerns
    • Maine Love Wears No Mask
      • Maine wedding industry flourishes once again
      • Future weddings in Maine: what’s to be expected
      • Maine couples are eager to get married as COVID-19 restrictions lift
      • Religious organizations are welcoming back the union of love
    • A Mighty Minority
      • Christians in Palestine resist too
      • Connected for life
      • Building a “glocal” community
      • Called beyond a title
  • Summer 2020
    • Blossoming in Survival
    • College Sports during COVID-19
    • College Enrollment Today
    • Dairy Farming
    • North End Dining
    • Back to School in Chelsea
    • Essential ‘Nonessentials’
    • Gig Jobs in the Pandemic
    • Tourism in Miami
    • Music Therapy
    • Neighborhood Businesses
    • Somerville Restaurants
    • The Ripple Effect
    • Turks in Massachusetts
  • Summer 2019
    • Abortion in America: Then & Now
    • After the Shooting Stops
    • All In the Family (Business)
    • Behind America’s Hometown
    • Boston’s Bakers Rise to the Challenge
    • Crossing from North to South
    • Down and Dirty in Boston
    • Net-Zero from the Ground Up
    • Happy Paradox for Asian Americans
    • What’s up in Boston’s Hip-Hop
    • The Underserved and Climate Change
    • Repairing Right to Repair
    • The Silicone Sickness Movement
  • Summer 2018
    • Come Hear the New Queer
    • Re-crafting Beer Culture
    • Gun Doves To Hawks
    • Korean Culture Hits US
    • Overworked and Undernourished
    • Boston’s Independent Theaters
    • The Power of DNA and How We Use It
    • How Women Rank in College Sports
    • Transgender Athletes: Prejudice or Positivity?
    • Blockchain and Bitcoin Outlook
    • Weeded Out
    • Perception of Veganism
    • More Than a Headache
  • Summer 2017
    • Aging in Boston
    • Boston Hair Care: Diversity & Choice
    • Climate Change in New York City
    • Listening for a Cure
    • Helping Homeless Stay Healthy
    • Study & Deliver
    • The Tech Divide: Teachers vs. Students
    • Together to Stop Youth Violence
    • Pretty hurts: Behind the clean beauty revolution
  • Spring 2017
    • Psychology of feminism
    • Ready to Lead
    • Running in Heels
    • Single Moms: Struggles and Hopes
    • Trips and Treatment
    • Unspoken and Untreated
    • Working at 50+
    • Zero Waste, Infinite Impact
  • Archive
    • Spring 2016
      • Accommodating Transgender
      • All in: Indian Gaming
      • Alone with Food Allergies
      • A Way to Innocence
      • Facing Anti-Muslim Hatred
      • Millennials Move In
      • Our Bodies, Our Struggle
      • Robotics: On a Limb
      • Service Dogs: Fact & Fiction
      • Staying on Pointe
      • Surviving Intimate Trauma
      • Two Homelands, One Love
    • Spring 2015
      • Back to Basics: Holistic Health
      • Beauty Expectations of Black Women
      • Boston 2024 Olympics
      • #BostonFitnessFads
      • Boston Mindfulness
      • Ca$hing in on Cyber$ecurity
      • Exposing Local Anti-Semitism
      • Families Serving Time
      • Fueling the Future
      • Helping the Homeless
      • Heroin: Beyond the Addiction
      • Mobile Language Learning
      • Overdose Oversight
      • Regrowing NE’s Country Roots
      • Robots Among Us
      • Self-image: Beyond the Scale
      • Styling Beantown
      • Tackling Combat Sports
      • The Algorithm Revolution
      • Through Boston Teachers’ Eyes
      • Toxic Nails
      • Wanted: More Women Leaders
      • World-Class Boston?
    • Spring 2014
      • Big Effect of Small-time Football
      • Bike Friendly Boston
      • Birth: Au Naturale
      • Bottle Bill Battle
      • Coastal Conversion
      • Deportation: Brink of Separation
      • Gay, Young and Homeless
      • Girls, STEM and Startups
      • HIV Positive Outlook
      • Immigrant Women & Domestic Abuse
      • Lost at 18
      • Nutrition Literacy
      • Recycling: 1 Bin or 2?
      • Reviving the Written Word
      • Treating Sexual Assault Remotely
      • Vinyl’s Comeback?
    • Fall 2013
      • Big Data in Health Care
      • Helping the Hungry
      • Lost at 18
      • Rehabbing Urban Wildlife
      • Startup Beauties
      • Sustainable Action
    • Spring 2013
      • Asperger’s in Adulthood
      • Chinese Grad Student Boom
      • Community in CrossFit
      • Death by Rx
      • Degreed and Underemployed
      • Geek is Chic
      • Growing Up Muslim
      • Nitrogen Nightmare?
      • Pit Bull Perception
      • Preservin’ the Classics
      • Right to Learn?
      • U.S. Women Made in China
      • Unsolved Gun Violence
      • Young & Homeless
    • Fall 2012
      • Better Workspaces
      • Black Beauty?
      • Broke Not Broken
      • Cheering Challenges
      • Going Social
      • Rainbow Religion
      • Style in Boston
      • The Play State
      • The Sporting Epidemic

Together to Stop Youth Violence

Highlighting organizations in the Boston area as well as in the North Shore area that provide programs to curtail violence among youths.

Lynn gym is fighting the good fight to help youths

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Mukala Kabongo
Life lessons through boxing at Private Jewels Fitness in Lynn, Mass., saving the youth one fight at a time.

Emerson College, Bird Street collaborative opening doors for youths

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Mukala Kabongo
Emerson College faculty and students give Boston youths a voice through Bird Street Community Center initiative.

Community centers provide opportunities for youths

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Mukala Kabongo
Local community centers support youths by offering arts and job opportunities.

About the Author

  • Mukala Kabongo


    Mukala Kabongo is a digital content producer from Lynn, Mass., by way of the Democratic Republic of Congo. While at Emerson, Kabongo interned at the Boston Herald, where he produced short news stories for the company's website. Kabongo also interned at Lynn Community Television, where he produced short news stories for the stations YouTube channel. Kabongo hopes to one day produce a documentary about the Democratic Republic of Congo.

    http://mukalak.com/

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