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Episode 3: Added Challenges: Disabilities and the Pandemic

From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files

Youth with disabilities had learning challenges during the pandemic that still have a lingering effect.

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An Outlier

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

This moment in time is teaching us to find ways to be alone. That's what it's always been like for James.

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Teens Take Over

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman

Kairi Hollon tried to go to the library when he was a teenager in Brooklyn in the 1980s, but he kept getting kicked out. Years later, he came back ...

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Ayden

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

Some people on the sidewalk said they saw what happened, and they called security and the police. And I remember one woman telling me, ‘You can rep...

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Syniya

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

My advice for kids, for losing someone you love: Just remember the good times, and remember those big hugs and big kisses you always got.

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Jeff's Diary: Revisited

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Radio Diaries Podcast

When Jeff Rogers was 16 years old he started referring to himself as a “halfrican.” Jeff has a black father and a white mother. And like many teena...

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A starting place for former foster youth

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: Darrell Molett in his living room, Credit: Rachel Wong

Dejon Lewis was 11 years old when child protective services arrived to take him and his twin sister away from their mother, whom he says is a drug ...

Auveed & Mateen's Excellent Adventure

From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2013

Auveed & Mateen's Excellent Adventure: A story about two cousins and a luthier.

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Autism Grows Up

From: Capital Public Radio
Series: The View From Here

Caption: Freddie Topete at Adult Transition Program, Credit: Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio

2013 Sigma Delta Chi Award winning one-hour documentary explores what's happening twenty years after a sharp rise in autism rates. Thousands of chi...

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Randy’s Diary: Remembering Ozell

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries

While living on a farm in the Mississippi Delta that was once part of a slave plantation, Randy searches for clues about the life of his great-gran...

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Frankie’s Diary, Part 2: Football

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries

Frankie’s second Teenage Diary follows his season playing running back for the Valley Head Tigers. Recorded in 1997, Frankie documents his life as ...

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Mental Illness

From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: Coming Up in 2011

I remember going to my first rock show, the Alkaline Trio, I was 12, a tall 12-year-old. I left there a mess. I had been hit in the face, my shir...

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I'm Not Emo

From: Radio Rookies

Like most of the kids in her school and on her block, 16-year-old Josetta Adams used to listen to hip-hop. But when she slipped into a depression, ...

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Khadija's Dream Routine

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Khadija Hussein is fourteen, and a Somali refugee living in Lewiston, Maine.

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A Horse Named "Buckwheat"

From: Rogi Riverstone

What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

Childhood Interrupted

From: Liz Jones
Series: A Village Away from Home

A look at how immigrant teens grapple with identity issues.

A Young Birder's Field Guide

From: Gretta Cohn

Luke Seitz is a 14-year-old birder with a lot on his mind- life lists, nemesis birds, and how to balance his secret passion with the confusing worl...

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