“Over the past year, people have regularly asked me how I can take the weight of being immersed in the news (so much of it negative), day after day. My answer is that I don’t feel the news. I spend so much time reading, describing, and sharing the news, that I’ve professionalized the process of consuming it. My job isn’t to feel the news. My job is to make you feel it. But I felt that speech by Emma González.” A month ago, I wrote that the movement led by the kids from Parkland felt different. These days, a month feels like it equals a decade in news years. And yet, the teen movement has risen above the din, and as we approach this weekend’s March for Our Lives, its organizers have managed to stay top of mind and at the top of the news. NY Mag: The Parkland Student Survivors Have Taken Over Media.

+ “In just a few weeks’ time, we, the youth of the United States, have built a new movement to denounce gun violence and call for safety in all of our communities. And this is only the beginning.” The iconic Emma González on Why This Generation Needs Gun Control

+ Follow along on Saturday, either on foot, or in the media where the Parkland students are guest editing The Guardian, and the editors at Youth Radio are mapping and tracking the hundreds of planned marches.