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31-year-old camp remains a staple in the Hampton Roads community
By Monika Davis Jumping up and down, kids wiped sweat from their foreheads as they finished another run-through of their dance routine at The Hurrah Players theater summer camp. Shawn ... -
The Confederate Flag: A Blast from its Past
Josh Queen, a 17-year-old from Maury High School in Norfolk, recently took a Confederate flag to an abandoned area to burn. “If you respect all people of gender, sexuality, ... -
Distracted driving is a battle for the millennial generation
By Roseanne Albano Holly Wilson learned the hard way about the danger of texting and driving: she crashed into a school bus. The accident totaled her car and caused $3,000 ... -
The Hottest New Teenage Hangout is... Museums?
Meghan Bright, 18, had never been to the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art before becoming a student in the museum’s Teen Apprenticeship Program earlier this year. She heard about the ... -
The Food Truck Craze
Kyong Lucas enjoys bringing a taste of her home country to Hampton Roads through her food truck business, Seoul 757. “A lot of people have been to Korea and they ... -
Local Group Gives YWCA Shelter a Facelift
As a young girl growing up in New York, Danielle White took an interest in helping others. It stemmed from her relationship with her girlfriends, who all came from single-parent ... -
Standardized testing put to the test
Emily Warren racked up quite the bill trying to increase her SAT score. The rising senior at Frank W. Cox High School took a prep course that cost more than ... -
A Scholarship with Pride
The LGBT community in Hampton Roads is full of powerful activists like Meghan Morris, a 23-year-old student at Old Dominion University. Morris helps the cause for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and ... -
'Love and Mercy' biopic pulls at the heart strings
By Monika Davis A heavy and emotional film, Love and Mercy portrays the mental illness that The Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson struggled with during his life and delves into the ... -
Love and Mercy: A Biopic About the Struggles of Brian Wilson's Mind
By Alexandra Harris The movie begins with a young Brian Wilson, singer/song writer for the Beach Boys, talking to himself in a dimly lit room. The darkness and confusion is consistent throughout ...
2015 students
Stories created by the 2015 journalism workshop participants
