PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Twenty-year-old Thien To first learned about cyberbullying in her native Vietnam. The South Philadelphia High junior has since learned about cyberb...
Bought by WGXC
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 05:48
- Purchases: 1
Shayla Torres dealt with a lot of violence in her last school, where she was a peer mediator. Here, the 17-year-old junior recalls one especially c...
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 02:51
- Purchases: 3
For Luis Lopez, violence arrived unexpectedly at his own front door. The seventeen-year-old sophomore starts his story in a classroom.
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 01:55
- Purchases: 2
Pat remembers his step-mother, Barbara Jean, from the first time they met, to the last time he saw her. Though the 11 years in between were sometim...
- Added: Jun 28, 2011
- Length: 08:26
- Purchases: 2
When Grace was a child, she and her mom moved out to a remote piece of the Arizona desert to live off the land. Things didn't work out exactly the ...
Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, WTIP, PRX Remix, YouthCast, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 07, 2011
- Length: 08:16
- Purchases: 5
Israeli United World College student, Nofar Hamrani, shares her moving story about growing up in the Gaza Strip. She begins her story with a famil...
Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 06, 2011
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
“Palestinian Hoop Dreams” is a thoughtful story by Ahmed Hemeid, a Palestinian student at United World College. Ahmed’s tells us an amazing story t...
- Added: Apr 05, 2011
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 2
Youth producer and radio DJ Yithzak Ledesma explores his love of Tejano music and interviews a local Tejano DJ. Produced at LBJ High School in Aus...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Mar 16, 2011
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 1
Santa Fe’s Earth Care International’s Youth Allies teams up with Youth Media Project to produce a compelling and emotional show about consumerism, ...
Bought by 90.5 WSNC and KBRP Community Radio
- Added: Feb 22, 2011
- Length: 56:12
- Purchases: 2
Abdul Kadir Farah, a Minneapolis Edison high school senior, is one of many Minneapolis high school students who collect college credit while still ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
When you play high school volleyball, you have to learn the moves that make your team competitive. April Nelson tells us about it.
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
As you step up from one level of school to the next, there is added responsibility, Simorra Jones, a Minneapolis Edison high school student tells u...
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
Lee Mier is a student manager of the Minneapolis Edison girls basketball team. It was exciting to get to the championship game last year.
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
If there is one thing that is on the minds of every high school student, it is getting into college. Sarah Griefnagen, a student at Minneapolis Edi...
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
High School is not an easy time of life. Minneapolis Edison students Breanna Koger and Jazzmin Keys collaborate to tell the world about it.
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
At Minneapolis Edison High School, the football coach places a lot of defensive responsibility on the linebackers. And that suits student Jesse Cla...
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
A student at United World College, Nelson Diaz Monterrosa, worked with Youth Media Project's Summer Intensive 2010 to produce this moving piece abo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 05:17
- Purchases: 2
"Family Tree" is a short piece written and produced by Andres Ortiz. His piece is a journey into Ortiz's unknown family history. Growing up being...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 06:08
- Purchases: 1
Members of the Youth Media Project’s Global Broadcasting Team host this broadcast to share stories from their recent trip to cover the 2009 Parliam...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 28:46
- Purchases: 1
Diana's experience transferring from a school in Brooklyn to one in the Bronx.
- Added: Feb 01, 2011
- Length: 09:29
If Pat could tell his late step-mother, Barbara Jean, one thing, it's that he probably should have listened to her advice.
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 2
"IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK: Inside Youth Speak Out" is a poetry series drawn from testimonial writings by the youngest members of America's prison ...
Bought by WGDR
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 14:58
- Purchases: 1
Justine Teba of Pojoaque Valley High School was a participant in Youth Media Project's 2010 Summer Intensive. In this reflective piece, Justine sh...
- Added: Jan 07, 2011
- Length: 02:00
Esmerelda Gonzales-Munoz's "The Love I Felt For You" shares with us her story about love. Created during Youth Media Project's 2010 Summer Intensiv...
- Added: Jan 07, 2011
- Length: 03:20
When Brenda was 7, she was carried across the border from Mexico. Now 19, the Minneapolis teen wishes she could live and work legally in the countr...
Bought by WTIP, WGXC, KUNM, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, and KSFR
- Added: Dec 08, 2010
- Length: 06:55
- Purchases: 5
