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From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Akins High School Spring 2021
Series: Akins High School Spring 2021
DaShawn Barr played a prominent role in the racial justice protests that occurred in Austin, Texas in summer 2020.
- Added: May 28, 2021
- Length: 05:35
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Akins High School Spring 2021
Series: Akins High School Spring 2021
Clifford has been a long-standing community activist on Austin’s east side. He routinely conducts focus groups, hosts various community meetings, a...
- Added: May 28, 2021
- Length: 08:50
Hi I’m Makayla and my piece is about my adventures being a fifth grade reject.
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 13:40
My name is Shawn Hughes. I wrote this piece consciously, recapping one of my most important moments of the year. In the midst of two pandemics, eve...
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 06:54
A piece by Lael Saphir. My piece is about what it feels like to be a P.O.C. dancer in a community that excludes you.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 06:47
- Purchases: 1
I'm Shawn Hughes and a student from Walter Payton College Prep. This project details, despite the success, the complications and struggles that our...
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 07:15
Gay teenager attends a Black Lives Matter protest in a suburb of NYC.
- Added: Jul 31, 2020
- Length: 08:15
Being told by my mother that I’m Ethiopian is the only connection that I have to this stranger: my father.
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Dec 11, 2019
- Length: 04:07
- Purchases: 1
My story is about the Mixed/Biracial experience in America (specifically Chicago). I chose to do this because I am mixed race. I identify as Black ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2018
- Length: 07:40
We all remember the influential teacher who made a difference in our lives. But for Drego Little, the teacher that changed his life was the one he ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 1
RadioActive youth producers take a look at one of the most important things in their lives: school.
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 12:12
Generation Justice fellow Matthew Brown reflects on the exploits of Dr. King, and the legacy he left for America.
- Added: Jan 09, 2017
- Length: 02:41
For all the ways we devise to pull communities apart, people find ways to rebuild.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 1
RadioActive Youth Media producer Krubel Amare breaks down the true essence of Hip Hop culture, and how it’s impacted himself and the people around ...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 06:57
- Purchases: 1
Producer Cheri Trusler's grandparents had a lot of cows to sell right around the time cattle prices in Montana were at their highest. That windfall...
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 04:45
Teen radio journalist, Lilli Carlsen, traces how her journey to become a feminist directly corresponds to musical artist Beyonce’s lyrics. For many...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 06:41
- Purchases: 1
North Beach Citizens is a community-driven, non-profit organization located in San Francisco, California, that addresses the needs of local homeles...
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 02:39
Reverend Hill discusses the history of Grant Chapel, and the A.M.E. church as a whole, connecting its founding as a rejection of discrimination to ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2014
- Length: 25:35
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
Melvin talks about what it's like being from New Orleans.
- Added: Jul 12, 2013
- Length: 01:20
My Choice My Voice teen talks about his transformation from a "troubled kid" to a high school graduate headed to college. Meanwhile, we hear his re...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jul 11, 2013
- Length: 12:37
- Purchases: 1
Using the poem "Where I'm From" by Willie Perdomo as a creative prompt, students created poems to share and express where they come from and how th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2012
- Length: 01:19
Youth producer Rochelle Smith gets to the real meaning of Thanksgiving with her family. Produced at LBJ High School in Austin, Texas, as a part of...
- Added: Mar 02, 2011
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 2
Malcolm is a junior at Lincoln Park High School in Chicago. He competed in the final round of competition in the 2010 Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetr...
Bought by KUER and Remix Radio
- Added: Apr 01, 2010
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 2
