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Caption: Sairam Has Perfect Pitch, Credit: Megan Gabriel
This is a story about music and family and survival. Though not necessarily in that order.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 09:20
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When you’re an 18 year old mom-to-be, what are your resources and how do you cope?

  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 05:35
Caption: Jeff Lasater (L) and Drew Cartwright
Jeff Lasater tells his friend Drew Cartwright about his son Jeremiah who, after being bullied at school, committed suicide at 14 years old.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KERA, and KMUD


  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 3
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Up until she was a teenager, she lived in comfort. What she didn’t see coming was the moment when she lost everything. Find out why her world turne...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Harrison Education Center
Daquan, a student at Harrison High School in Minneapolis laments losing a best friend.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Dayquan, a student at Harrison High School in Minneapolis, writes about moving forward despite having to struggle

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Dayquan, a student at Harrison High School, tells about the experiences that hade him what he is. A good deal of pathos is included.

Bought by KSRQ and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:35
  • Purchases: 2
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Annie confronts her brother about his lying.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WJCT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 17, 2013
  • Length: 12:14
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Maryama Abdi, Credit: Molly Haley
When Maryama Abdi came with her family to this country from Somalia, she left behind someone very dear to her.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 01:49
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This is the story of the impact of diabetes on Generation Justice Fellow Pauly Denetclaw's family, but also Native American communities as a whole,...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 06:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Luna Olavarria Gallegos, Credit: Generation Justice
Do you know what race equity is? Luna Olavarria Gallegos speaks about her experiences in high school and what schools can do to address the needs o...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 04:47
Caption: John and classmate Taylor play Tony and Maria in West Side Story, part of Riverview School’s 2013 annual play. , Credit: Virginia Sutherland
The students at Riverview School are in most ways no different to teenagers at any other New England boarding school. They play soccer and run cro...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 04:50
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During the Wendy Davis Filibuster the nation was glued to their radios and television sets to see the outcome of this now historic moment. Wendy wa...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:20
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Free, audio book excerpt. “Color is a power which directly influences the soul,” wrote Vasily Kandinsky, the Russian painter and theorist credited ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Nov 11, 2013
  • Length: 08:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Two teenage sisters, whose names are withheld to respect their privacy, remember confiding in each other about being sexually abused by their uncle...

Bought by WEZU and KMUD


  • Added: Nov 08, 2013
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 2
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What is it like to be homeless in the city that never sleeps? Reporter Kristie Brigandi takes us to lower Manhattan, and introduces us to some of t...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 09:17
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This one-hour documentary takes an intimate look at the high school dropout crisis through the lives of three young people from California's Centra...

Bought by KALW, WITF, KZYX, WSKG, KALW and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 54:04
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: The Terry Project
In many ways, Emilie is your average twenty-something. But living with borderline personality disorder isn’t easy, and neither is getting the neces...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2013
  • Length: 32:06
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In Tara Trudell's descriptive and beautiful piece, cooking is a metaphor for love, and standing her ground after losing everything is a decision sh...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:20
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Charles-Austin Ross tells about his family, growing up, and finding his voice when opposition might stand in the way of his future.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:32
Caption: James at Phillips Exeter
James Simmons lives on the south side of Chicago. For five weeks, he was granted the opportunity to attend a summer program at Phillips Exeter Acad...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2013
  • Length: 08:08
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Melvin talks about what it's like being from New Orleans.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2013
  • Length: 01:20
Caption: Frankie in 2013., Credit: David Gilkey/NPR
As a teenager, Frankie was a high school football star whose picture was in his hometown newspaper every week. Years after graduating, Frankie was ...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, PRX Remix, WJCT, and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 30:26
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Adrian Hawkins (L) and Horace Atwater Jr. (R)
Adrian Hawkins talks to his foster father, Horace Atwater Jr.

Bought by WEZU and WTJU


  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Deported parents with children who are wards of the state in the U.S. are sometimes able to visit with their children at the border in Tijuana., Credit: Jill Replogle
One in four deportees have a U.S. citizen child left behind. As they struggle to prove to U.S. social workers and the courts that they can take car...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 1