World

By Grace Pastoor

When Ready Htoo tried his first hot dog in America he loved it – until he found out what it was called.

By Dymanh Chhoun, University of Minnesota, Class of 2011

I can tell that this country has better opportunities for my son. Better resources for education and different things. So I think now I’m sacrificing for him. And I am happy with that.

By Asma Adam

My name is Shamso Ali Hashi. I grew up in a small city outside Mogadishu. I finished high school there. I got married young and had 11 children in total. Six passed away and five are alive.

By Jada Pulley

I’m Hmong, and you cannot find Hmong on the map of the world. There is no country that is mine. So I link myself up to the people who love me, who no matter where we were, carved out a place to belong for me.

By Stacy Dahl

I was born in a refugee camp in Thailand. My 13 siblings and Mom and Dad all traveled here together when I was 13. I just graduated from Robbinsdale Armstrong High School and started my first year of college at the University of Minnesota this fall.

By Corey Kramer

There was a lot of that going on because the Woolworth’s would not allow us to eat at the lunch counter — they had a separate lunch counter for us. The fellows were the ones who integrated the lunch counter. The females did not participate in the sit-ins at the lunch counter. We supported them, maybe doing papers or taking notes and making sure they didn’t get behind in the classes.

By Mariya Khan, Anoka High School

Mariya Khan interviewed Matthew Little, a long-time civil rights leader, as part of a project on immigrants in Minnesota.

In the South, where I was born and educated, it was an established mores that African Americans, and to an extent, other minorities too, were basically inferior human beings.

By Maddie Colbert, South High School

As part of a project on immigrants in Minnesota, ThreeSixty Journalism student Maddie Colbert interviewed Betty Ellison-Harpole about her childhood in the South and the strange experience of attending an integrated university when she moved North.

By Radio Rookies series

To mark the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, Radio Rookies, WNYC’s Peabody Award-winning youth journalism program, presents “Our 9/11: Growing Up in The Aftermath,” an hour special hosted by NPR’s Brooke Gladstone.

By Carlos Ortiz

At Lincoln International, immigrant teens share the work of mastering a new language.

By Allison Wang

Minneapolis public schools now offer K-12 Chinese and Arabic language classes.

By Falak Sher Marri, 16, of Avalon School

Before arriving in this country, I was curious about Americans. I often wondered about their lifestyle and culture. As an exchange student, my task is to answer the questions I had before coming here.

By Iman Jafri

Despite all the recent news coverage about her parent’s country, Iman Jafri finds Americans have trouble understanding Pakistan.

By Emmet Kowler and Emmet Kowler of South Senior High

If you’re a graduating senior this year, you were only 7 or 8 years old when this past decade began. Today’s teens grew up during the first decade of the 21st century. Reporter Emmet Kowler nominates these events and cultural changes as some of the things that had the greatest impact on teens.