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Caption: TEAM Englewood Slam Poetry Team
What Black People Say to Racist Republicans is a team piece performed by the poets of TEAM Englewood Community Academy High School Slam Poetry Team...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:55
Caption: Poet Ce-Ce Tate
Poet Cecilia "Ce-Ce" Tate, 17, is a junior at Curie Metro High School. This is her second year participating in Louder Than a Bomb. Her piece, Lur...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:56
Caption: Poet Camara Brown
Poet Camara Brown, 16, is a junior at Oak Park and River Forest High School. This is her first year participating in Louder Than a Bomb. Her piece...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
Caption: Poet Miona Short
Poet Miona Short, 16, is a junior at Walter Payton College Prep High School, but she was representing YOUmedia Chicago in this year's competition. ...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:57
Caption: Poet Asha Ransby-Sporn
Poet Asha Ransby-Sporn, 17, is a senior at University of Chicago Laboratory High School. This is her first year participating in Louder Than a Bom...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
Caption: Poet Kush Thompson
Poet Kush Thompson, 17, is a senior at Orr Academy High School, but she was representing YOUmedia Chicago in this year's competition. This is her ...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 03:14
Caption: Poet Rachel Smith
Poet Rachel Smith, 18, is a senior and a member of Epic Sound, the Kenwood Academy Slam Poetry Team. This is her second year participating in Loud...

Bought by YouthCast


  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Poet Essie Linzy
Poet Essie Lindzy, 18, is a senior at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School. This is her second year participating in Louder Than a Bomb. Rosie reca...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Poet Keith Warfield
Poet Keith Warfield, 18, is a senior at TEAM Englewood Community Academy High School. This is his fourth year participating in Louder Than a Bomb....

Bought by KHSU and KSFR


  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Poet Malcolm London
Poet Malcolm London, 18, is a 2011 graduate of Lincoln Park High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the third year, this time as par...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:44
Caption: Ashford & Simpson
The musical story of "ASHFORD & SIMPSON", today plus the celebration of the life of NICHOLAS ASHFORD (May 4, 1941 – August 22, 2011). ASHFORD & SIM...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WJAB, and WVAS


  • Added: Sep 26, 2011
  • Length: 57:46
  • Purchases: 3
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

  • Added: Mar 10, 2010
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 3
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Ayana Contreras explores the motivation behind "playing the numbers", or the lottery.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2010
  • Length: 09:46
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Is Marijuana Prohibition Enforcement Institutionalized Racism? 85% of all the possession arrests in New York City and Philadelphia are mirrors to G...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2009
  • Length: 03:50
Caption: Will Wright, Credit: Brooks Peterson
Will Wright has been wondering: how will the New Year and Pres. Obama affect African-American men - their attitudes and futures?

  • Added: Dec 31, 2008
  • Length: 03:12