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Unfairly burdening LGBTQ teens.
- Added: Jul 31, 2022
- Length: 07:29
Challenges faced by LGBTQ teens who are dating and how straight friends, teachers, and hopefully parents can support them.
- Added: Dec 31, 2020
- Length: 11:56
Do youth even care about the pandemic? … YES! Tune in to hear a montage of youth voices sharing why they choose to stay home and stay safe!
- Added: Jul 02, 2020
- Length: 05:42
A pet bunny gets recast as gay in a children’s book parodying a similar book created by members of VP Mike Pence’s family.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Apr 27, 2018
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
Today, Americans seem to lack any type of silence in their lives. Silence should be a source of solace, but the modern mind is often discontent whe...
Bought by KUER and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 13, 2016
- Length: 03:40
- Purchases: 2
In this commentary Youth Radio's Desmond Meagley explains why family time at his home is often overshadowed by technology.
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 01:08
The most important meal of the day - breakfast - is no longer a priority among teenagers. Why can't they find the time for golden waffles doused in...
- Added: Jun 06, 2015
- Length: 01:33
When Jimmy was 7 years old, he was diagnosed with ADHD (what's considered today to be a common behavioral disorder). He was prescribed mood-alterin...
- Added: Jun 01, 2015
- Length: 04:10
How fast are kids growing up? Jasmyn Harlan, a senior in high school, asks kids of various ages what they want to be when they grow up. Surprisingl...
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 03:48
Climbers use the process of kick stepping to carve out an uphill path for people behind them through snowy terrain. This activity requires not only...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 02:01
- Purchases: 1
Melvin comments in his poem, that there are too many people in our society not really connecting with one another.
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 04:26
In this poem, Daniela wishes that her relationship with her sister was closer.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 02:15
- Purchases: 2
Julisa, a young poet, gives her views on marriage which are pessimistic to say the least.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 19, 2014
- Length: 03:18
- Purchases: 1
Kimmy couldn't believe that she was getting college info packs in the mail as a 9th grader. Having just transitioned to high school from middle sch...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 26, 2013
- Length: 08:16
- Purchases: 1
After going through foster care, this Minneapolis High School kids wonders about the good accomplished by foster care.
- Added: Aug 24, 2011
- Length: 01:00
Many young students are not able to get the sleep they need each night. Avinash Patel, a student at Susan B Anthony middle School in Minneapolis ha...
- Added: May 14, 2011
- Length: 01:00
Youth Radio's Pendarvis Harshaw says that for a lot of his friends, the transition from having sex with a condom to sex without, is seen as a symbo...
- Added: Dec 05, 2008
- Length: 03:03
- Purchases: 2
Growing up in rural Appalachia Machlyn Blair didn't think he would have much in common with teenagers from other places. But the current immigrat...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WGXC, WMNF, SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more
- Added: Jun 05, 2006
- Length: 01:36
- Purchases: 11
