Voices from the future

the long version

Raw. Compelling. Uncensored. These are the voices of America's children and teenagers talking to their peers about the violence in their lives. Generated by Children's Express, the award-winning news service that is reported and edited by young people, Voices from the Future is a rare collection of interviews that frankly and incisively probes the effects of violence on an entire generation of Americans. Children's Express teen journalists have gone out onto the streets and into the schools and shelters to obtain one-on-one interviews with gang members, skinheads, and homeless teens, as well as kids who are making a difference in their school and youth programs. The result is an oral history of the violence that our children have experienced and perpetuated. Filled with emotion, introspection, and humor - and illustrated with twelve startling photographs by Mary Ellen Mark - Voices from the Future is a devastating testament to the ways in which children internalize, reenact, and survive the violence of their world.