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America's Bilingual Future
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Caption: PRX default Piece image
With changes in schooling to add more bilingual education and the fact that the United States is getting more diverse, American future is bilingual.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 2
Yes, I'm from China. And yes those people are my parents
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Maya and her parents., Credit: Courtesy of Maya Konz
The first thing you say to someone you just met is most likely a polite greeting: "Hello! What's your name?" But not everyone is that thoughtful.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
Depression in 7th grade: 'I want to die but if I could get help that would be awesome'
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Sam struggled with depression in middle school., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/NATALIE NEWCOMB
“I started being like, I can’t talk about these things. You’re basically taught to bottle up your feelings in middle school.” RadioActive Youth M...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:49
  • Purchases: 2
Even if it smells bad, this researcher loves solving mysteries
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Leo S. Morales loves his job as a researcher of minority health at the University of Washington., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/TORI ZIVKOVIC
People sometimes take unlikely paths to get where they're going. This is the story of an unlikely scholar.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
I'm alive because of a dictator's ego and my family's clever thinking
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: RadioActive producer Jad Vianu with his father Alec Vianu., Credit: Courtesy of Jad Vianu
Many people have heard of the brutal dictatorships that ruled Soviet Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. RadioActive youth producer and high s...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 04:55
Albinism And Me: How My Genetic Condition Makes My Ethnicity Invisible
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Kamna Shastri with her dad on her fifth birthday. Now, Kamna is coming to terms with her albinism., Credit: COURTESY OF KAMNA SHASTRI
RadioActive producer Kamna Shastri tries to understand where she fits into conversations about race and identity as an Indian-American with albinism.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 03:52
How My Bookworm Sister Left Our Refugee Camp
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
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In the United States, we take the right to get an education for granted but that's not the case for many refugees. RadioActive's Faisa Muse brings ...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 05:12
I Always Wondered What A Psychiatric Hospital Was Like, And There I Was
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Fallon, 17, suffered a psychotic episode in sophomore year of high school., Credit: COLLEEN MCDEVITT / KUOW
Lots of teens struggle with depression or anxiety, but what’s less talked about is psychotic disorders in teens and what the struggle is like. Radi...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
I Was An Unlikely Homeschooled Student
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Elinor Jones Toutant at the RadioActive Community Listening Party., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/COLLEEN MCDEVITT
Elinor Jones Toutant was homeschooled for most of her education, even though her family isn't one you'd expect to make that choice.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 05:03
How 83-Year-Old Houseboat Resident Sees Seattle Gentrification
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: Mack has lived on a houseboat in Seattle's Portage Bay since 1968., Credit: KUOW Photo / Aubrey Gelpieryn
Mack Hopkins has been apart of the Seattle floating home community since 1968. He’s seen the community go from affordable homes to million dollar o...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Idea Of A Better Future Keeps Teen Mom Going
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: Reporter Walter Stanton, Credit: Courtesy of KUOW
Gabby Saechao was in her first year of college when she heard those two dreaded words: “You’re pregnant.”

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 04, 2015
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 1
On A Visit To The United States, A First Encounter With Racism
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: RadioActive's Kamna Shastri and her cousin Ananya Shankar in Seattle, Credit: Jenny Asarnow
A 13-year-old girl in Chennai, India, had always wanted to visit the United States. But when she does, her idealized view of America is tested by t...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
Young Seattleites Feel Limited By Lack Of All-Ages Live Music
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2014
Caption: Barriers keep people under 21 out of many areas at the Capitol Hill Block Party. , Credit: KUOW Photo/Noah Phillips Reardon
Music festivals all around the country are great places to hear live music. However, not everyone can enjoy the music. Many of the stages have an a...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:22
An Autistic Teen's Guide To Impersonating Michael Jackson
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2014
Caption: Impersonating Michael Jackson made it easier for Lorenzo Manuel to deal with the social pressures of middle school., Credit: Courtesy of Lorenzo Manuel
Lorenzo Manuel started impersonating Michael Jackson after the singer’s death. At the time he found impersonating Michael helped him to cope with t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 05:13
  • Purchases: 1
How My Basement Led Me To The Jazz Scene On Jackson Street
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2014
Caption: E. Russell 'Noodles' Smith, the owner of a famous club in the Central District in the 1900s., Credit: Credit Public domain, via BlackPast.org
RadioActive Reporter Nia Price-Nascimento lives in a house built in the 1920s in the Central District, Seattle's historically African-American neig...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:23
A Death Sentence Turns Into A Call Of The Wild
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2014
Caption: Leo Egashira in Glacier Bay, Alaska, Credit: Courtesy of Leo Egashira
Leo Egashira was diagnosed with HIV in 1992. He saw the diagnosis as a slow death sentence so he decided to take a once in a life time trip. He tak...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 05:17
Homelessness: It Could Happen to Anyone, Even My Dad
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Iris and her dad, Robert
When Blunt member Iris SanGiovanni was eight years old, her dad became homeless for six months after her parents divorced. A few years later, she h...

Bought by KZYX, WSLR, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSFR, WMPG and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 10
It's Harder Than You Think
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Anna had always been interested in farming. So when she met Carolyn Snell at a farmers market in Portland, Anna decided to find out, once and for a...

Bought by WXLV-FM, WXLV-FM, and KOOP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2007
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 3
Paul Lovestrand, Village Baker
From: Terin Mayer
Series: Carleton Audio Portraits
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The rhythms and philosophy of Paul Lovestrand, the Carleton College baker.

  • Added: Feb 06, 2006
  • Length: 04:57