Fatherlessness is considered to be a contributing factor to juvenile delinquency by researchers, as fatherless children are more likely to have behavioral problems and engage in risky behaviors.
Mikhayla Hughes-Shaw
Mikhayla Hughes-Shaw is a recent graduate of the University of Iowa with a journalism and mass communication degree and a Critical Cultural Competence certificate. Originally from Rock Island, Illinois, she worked as a peer mentor for the University of Iowa School of Journalism, providing academic and social support to journalism majors. She was a news intern for KWWL-TV, in Waterloo, Iowa, and KWQC-TV in Davenport, Iowa, which covers the Quad Cities area of southeastern Iowa and northwestern Illinois. She serves as a co-host for “LOVE Girls the Podcast,” designed to empower girls, in partnership with LOVE Girls Magazine and WVIK, an NPR station in the Quad Cities. Hughes-Shaw was Miss Iowa 2018.
Midwest-based fashion brand destigmatizes hoodies
Humanize My Hoodie brand co-founders Jason Sole and Andre Wright aim to destigmatize clothing trends that are associated with Black and brown individuals while also humanizing the person “underneath the hoodie.”