By Valeria Bula and Sabine Joseph Before the cap and gown, before singing the alma mater, before the diploma, seniors at Miami Lakes Educational center must complete their Capstone Presentation, the culmination of three years of journalism education comes together at the end of the student’s’ senior year as they deliver their presentations to a panel…
By Edysmar Diaz-Cruz
By Edysmar Diaz-Cruz As I walk through the halls of Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC), students with dark circles and thick AP review books clutched in their arms all become one monotonous wave of anxiety, depression, self-doubt and everything a teenager shouldn’t be experiencing in the prime of their youth. The pressure to “make something…
By Stephanie Brito, Edysmar Diaz-Cruz, and Jennifer Perez Ella Hernandez came to Ultra in shorts and a bikini top last year. This year, she’ll come with her friend’s ID and a lot of makeup–she’s 17. After a guard was trampled by people who wanted to enter Ultra Music Festival last year, the company decided to…
By Edysmar Diaz-Cruz Samantha Diaz ran away from home at age sixteen. She lived in a foster home that was so abusive that she preferred homelessness. She spent days wandering the streets with a gang of friends, depending on strangers’ compassion and their willingness to give money to buy food. They were all runaways, escaping…