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VOX is where teens speak and Atlanta listens. You can share your own (nonfiction) story, letter, or poem here — and get published! To share your story, submit online here or email editor@voxatl.org

MARTA’s buses have been running in Atlanta since 1972 and MARTA trains have been rolling through the metro area since 1979. As MARTA asks the public for feedback on its planned bus network redesign, I thought it would be important to denote the ways that MARTA has already positively impacted its serviced areas. MARTA runs…

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Meandering through Macy’s on the busiest shopping day of the year, my mom and I passed the Clinique makeup stand where an elderly woman stood waiting to see a representative. A sari draped over her shoulder and her hair braided with flowers, she obviously stood out from the hundreds of others in the Black Friday…

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This podcast is filled with everything Teen and everything Real. In this podcast three teen girls Ila-Rose, Paige, and Emmanuella sit and talk about everything that we as teens experience and can grow from. We will talk about the truth about relationships at our age to mindfulness or self-awareness. Our goal is to connect with…

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I don’t watch much TV. I don’t watch many movies. It’s not because I don’t want to, but more like I can’t. I can’t make myself watch people that don’t look like, live like, or think like me fall in love and experience heartbreak and face rejection and even do mundane things like go on…

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