My high school years were the worst of my life. Not a single day passed without other kids harassing me for being ''different.'' They made me feel inadequate, and I couldn't defend myself because I was weaker.
DANIEL SHOER ROTH | VIEW FROM EL NUEVO HERALD
I am a vigorous enemy of stereotypes: The stingy Jew; the black thief; the Muslim terrorist; the promiscuous homosexual; the Latino machista; the child-molesting priest. . . .
DANIEL SHOER ROTH | VIEW FROM EL NUEVO HERALD
Wearing a pair of droopy sweat pants she found on the street, Susan Rodriguez retrieves a crumpled paper from her pocket filled with scribbles and numbers for homeless hot lines and shelters.
DANIEL SHOER ROTH | VIEW FROM EL NUEVO HERALD
It's not the typical summer vacation for a teen. Between the fun and the sun, Monica Trueba, 17, spent a week this year training at the Miami-Dade Emergency Operations Center to help her neighborhood in the event of a hurricane. Along with 30 other kids ages 13 to 17, she handed out batteries at a retirement home, watched a documentary about Hurricane Katrina and brainstormed on how to help during an emergency.
DANIEL SHOER ROTH | VIEW FROM EL NUEVO HERALD
Hunger in South Florida? The answer can be found in the long lines at food banks and soup kitchens where the number of customers doubled and tripled this year. The confluence of events couldn't be worse.
DANIEL SHOER ROTH | VIEW FROM EL NUEVO HERALD
On Jan. 15, Stephon Louis tested positive for HIV at age 19. Weeks earlier, in a ''night of pleasure,'' he failed to use protection.
DANIEL SHOER ROTH | VIEW FROM EL NUEVO HERALD
Some members of the Miami-Dade Reentry Task Force gathered this week trying to summarize their mission in 13 words or less. So much is needed to help integrate ex-offenders into our community that a passionate debate broke out. Everyone did agree on one thing: There is no time to waste in putting a plan into action.
DANIEL SHOER ROTH | VIEW FROM EL NUEVO HERALD
The woman's tone of voice was muffled. She was sick and depressed, her husband had lost his job and they were going to be evicted from their foreclosed home. She saw no way out of her problems.
