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I Love Tejano Music
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
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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
Youth Media Project and Earth Care International’s Youth Allies Consumerism Show
From: Littleglobe
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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
Minneapolis Edison Girls' Basketball
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
Caption: Lee Mier, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
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
Teenaged Angst
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
Caption: Breanna Koger (l) and Jazzmin Keys, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
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
Edison High School's Football defensive philosophy
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
Caption: Jesse Clabo, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
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
Green Army Hat
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Col. Villa
A student at United World College, Nelson Diaz Monterrosa, worked with Youth Media Project's Summer Intensive 2010 to produce this moving piece abo...

Bought by KZYX and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 2
Family Tree
From: Littleglobe
Caption: by Josephnovak33 on Flickr
"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
Interfaith Understanding
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Youth Media Project at Parliament of the World's Religions
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
Remembering Barbara Jean
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Pat (left) and Joshua Presby
If Pat could tell his late step-mother, Barbara Jean, one thing, it's that he probably should have listened to her advice.

Bought by YouthCast and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 2
"If These Walls Could Talk: Inside Youth Speak Out" SEASON TWO
From: Susan Stone
Caption: Justice for Youth mural, Credit: San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center
"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
Strangers & Friends
From: Littleglobe
Caption: From jungmoon's Flickr
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
Coming of age "illegal"
From: MPR News Stations
Series: MPR News' Youth Series
Caption: Brenda, 19, walks through her Minneapolis neighborhood. She's been living as an illegal immigrant in Minnesota since she was 7 years old., Credit: MPR Photo/Jeff Thompson
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
Different, Not Disabled: The Perception of My Mind
From: WHJE
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Aspergers, in my opinion, has always been misunderstood due to it being a medical "condition." When you listen to this, I ask that you go in with ...

Bought by HowSound, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis, KSFR and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 8
One Last Word: Out
From: Mark Blackmon
Series: One Last Word
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Commentary on the recent series of videos being uploaded to YouTube in the wake of a round of gay teen suicides.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2010
  • Length: 03:15
MA-150 Field of Dreams
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
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Little League baseball offers training in a field of dreams

  • Added: Aug 18, 2010
  • Length: 05:27
To Diné - Santa Fe Indian School
From: Littleglobe
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A poem by three students from the Santa Fe Indian School's Spoken Word team -- Santana Shorty, Clara Natonabah, and Nolan Eskeets -- about understa...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2010
  • Length: 03:38
Tattoos are the new lockets
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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Tattoos have surpassed lockets as a way of keeping memories close.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2010
  • Length: 04:06
Blue Collar Babysitter
From: Eric Winick
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A portrait of Mike Butler: Irish-American tannery worker, avid gambler, and, in the eyes of three young boys growing up in suburban Massachusetts ...

Bought by The Story, KUT, and WILL


  • Added: Dec 16, 2009
  • Length: 11:35
  • Purchases: 3
"Monesticism"
From: WHJE
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Religion vs Money

Bought by Vocalo.org and KSFR


  • Added: Nov 09, 2009
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 2
Lunch Time in Ait Iktel
From: Beno Picciano
Caption: Tahjin
During my homestay with a family in rural Morocco, I had a tricky cultural experience which many of us can relate to.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: :00
Fresh Greens: Teens and the Environment
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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Tells the stories of how American youth think about their daily impact on our planet.

Bought by KVMR, KZYX, KXOT Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUNM and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: 51:29
  • Purchases: 10
Does Biology Class Really Matter?
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
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If given the chance would you take that environmental class in high school?

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jun 12, 2009
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
The Charles River Didn't Kill Me
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
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A science experiment that didn't go tragically wrong

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2009
  • Length: 01:13
  • Purchases: 1
Growin’ Up, Comin’ Out, Speakin’ Proud
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Diego Ruiz, Credit: http://www.outloudradio.org/
Every year during the month of June, in honor of LGBTQ Pride, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queers, and those who support them, gather to ma...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Jun 04, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
This I Believe - Alaa El-Saad
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Texas student Alaa El-Saad believes in wearing a hijab, a religious head covering for Muslim women.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KBGA 89.9 FM


  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 3