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Girls Rock NC is a summer music camp that doesn't hide being a feminist organization that embraces all gender identities. Ninety-five teens and twe...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2016
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 1
Magic: The Gathering, the international, collectible card has over 20 million players. So when Clinton's friend and "magic buddy," Brent, moves awa...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 32:00
- Purchases: 1
An emotional and poetic tour of a day in the life of a youth at Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 07:13
In this voice collage, veterans and youth share their personal definitions of what it means to be an “Urban Warrior.”
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 02:44
In the Navy for five years Carlos maintained airplanes. As a behavior therapist for youth, Carlos works with a young man who intimidates the other ...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 08:41
After George loses his father, he starts smoking marijuana and selling drugs. In Urban Warriors, he connects with a veteran who has a positive impa...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 03:12
Growing up in Little Village, Jorge experienced firsthand the toll that gang violence has on communities and individuals. Jorge talks about joining...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 08:16
Francisco grew up feeling endangered and like he had to become involved with the gang his family was in for his own safety. When he was ready to ma...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 05:46
In part two of his story, Steven talks about how addressing emotions and trauma is often taboo for veterans, and how Urban Warriors gave him a chan...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 05:17
Giovanni knows that others consider him and many youth in his neighborhood to be criminals. In Urban Warriors, he learns about himself and begins t...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 04:28
Steven knew from a young age that he wanted to join the military. In Afghanistan, the expectation of violence impacts the rest of his life experien...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 07:50
Abner talks about how he responded to his own bad choices and the problems they created by joining the Army. In Urban Warriors, Abner connects with...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 05:56
At young age, Victor is taken from his mother and lives at three foster homes. After witnessing violence against his family, he has a realization w...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 04:38
As an Urban Warriors facilitator, Charles has learned strategies for connecting with youth by strategically encouraging them to open up about their...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 05:43
Jacobi shares the struggles he encountered while growing up and how they led to his involvement with a gang. He talks about how he channelled his p...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 06:10
Diaries of a teenager who always seems to fall for guys who just aren't into women.
- Added: May 15, 2016
- Length: 19:46
Brother Twelve ran a colony on Vancouver Island in the late 1920s. What started as a utopian community ended in pieces. This is a weird exploration...
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 43:00
Packed in one car, Elaine Manis, her six siblings, and her mother set out on a trip from the small town of Forgan, Oklahoma, to the seaside town of...
- Added: Apr 25, 2016
- Length: 01:24
Community Storytelling Fellow, Alice Wong asks, how do people with disabilities who rely on personal assistance negotiate their relationships with ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 11:33
Whether you’re a paid home care provider, or rely on personal assistance to meet your daily needs, or a family member caring for a loved one, the n...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WVAS, and WRIR
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
During the night of November 13th, 2015, a series of terrorist attacks claimed by ISIL killed 130 people and injured 368 in Paris, France. Kansas C...
- Added: Apr 01, 2016
- Length: 10:05
What does it feel like to be an outside in the middle of a national crisis? A Japanese-Canadian perspective on the earthquake and tsunami that shoo...
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 22:37
An inmate talks about how her incarceration has brought her mother around in a full circle: remembering how her mother visited her father in prison...
- Added: Mar 16, 2016
- Length: 03:32
Do you know that feeling you get when you’re about to leave a place? Like you’re seeing it all for the first time? That all the sounds and sights ...
- Added: Mar 05, 2016
- Length: 22:59
Randy Brown has to, no lie, shoot a bear and immediately grab it by the tail and Glenner Anderson makes the cardinal mistake of bear encounters--he...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 28:59
