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Incarcerated Parents
From: Radio Rookies
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15-year-old Keith Tingman remembers his tenth birthday better than any other birthday before or since. That was the day he watched his mom get arre...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Vocalo.org, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 4
Picture This: A Nerd With a Camera & a Love Story by Raymond Abercrombie
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2010
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Raymond is a Senior at DeVry in Chicago. A member of the team "Hellow World," Raymond competed in the 2010 Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetry Slam as a...

Bought by KUER and Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
21 Dollar Father by Montrel Marks
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2010
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A sophomore at TEAM Englewood Community Academy High School on Chicago's south side, Montrel competed in the finals of the 2010 Louder Than a Bomb ...

Bought by KUER, Vocalo.org, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 3
A Defined Goddess by Melena Bass
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2010
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A sophomore at TEAM Englewood Community High School on Chicago's south side, Melana helped represent Team Englewood in the finals of the 2010 Loude...

Bought by KUER and Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 2
My Lunar Affair by Myara Robinson
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2010
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A sophomore at Englewood Community Academy High School, Myara says her poem is a love confession to the moon. Myara is part of Team Englewood, one ...

Bought by KUER and Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 2
A Poet's Prayer by Team Englewood
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2010
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Team Englewood is Johnathan Nesbitt, Myara Robinson, Keith "Blu" Warfield, and Melana Bass, all students at Team Englewood Community Academy on Chi...

Bought by KUER and Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Harajuku Hyphen by Darius Parker
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2010
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Darius is a senior at Truman Middle College Alternative High School, and a member of Team Kuumba Lynx, which is an arts-in-education, not-for-profi...

Bought by KUER and Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 2
Rosa Parks
From: KBEM
Series: Black History Minutes
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Princess tells us of the accomplishments of Rosa Parks

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 1
Duke Ellington
From: KBEM
Series: Black History Minutes
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Diamond Be tells about some of the high points of Duke Ellington's career.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 1
The Black Panther Party
From: KBEM
Series: Black History Minutes
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Amani tells of the accomplishments of the Black Panther party.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: :59
From Africa to Anchorage
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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It can be hard being the new kid in school. It can be even harder being the new kid in a new country.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2010
  • Length: 07:25
Graduates' Next American Dream
From: Jordan Nelson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This year's college graduates weigh in on what's next for the American Dream, in this piece by Jordan Nelson of KOSU in Stillwater, Okla.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2009
  • Length: 03:33
From High School To High Security
From: Youth Radio
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Reginald Dwayne Betts went from the high school honor roll to the penitentiary. He spent nine years in prison beginning at age 16 for a carjacking ...

Bought by KUOW, Vocalo.org, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 3
I Live In Martin Luther King Plaza; What About You?
From: Curie Youth Radio
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A tour of Chicago's west side and one teenager's memories.

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and WTIP


  • Added: May 19, 2009
  • Length: 02:42
  • Purchases: 2
Say it ain't so Jo Jo!
From: Youth Outlook
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This week on YO!Radio

  • Added: May 18, 2009
  • Length: 07:26
Chicagoans Consider Their Road Not Taken
From: Curie Youth Radio
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Robert Frost's famous poem helps us reflect on our own paths.

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Apr 27, 2009
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 2
When I Grow Up...
From: Pulse of Portland Music Project
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When I grow up I want to be a Cosmotologist

  • Added: Apr 27, 2009
  • Length: 01:22
Bobby McFerrin talks to RADIJOJO
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
Series: Across the Ocean - the first Transatlantic Radio for kids
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A while ago, Bobby McFerrin performed at the Berliner Philharmonic with the Munich Symphony Orchestra. Well, that was something we just couldn't m...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2009
  • Length: 09:29
Gay Fashion is the New Straight Fashion
From: Youth Radio
Series: Youth Radio's the Best of "What's the New What?"
Caption: Youth Radio's Mark Anthony Waters., Credit: Wilmer Tejada
Youth Radio's Mark Anthony Waters used to hear straight guys in his inner-city neighborhood whisper about his style on the bus. Now, they're copyin...

Bought by KVNF, KUOW, and WMNF


  • Added: Dec 08, 2008
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 3
Killing is the New Fighting
From: Youth Radio
Series: Youth Radio's the Best of "What's the New What?"
Caption: Youth Radio reporter Ayesha Walker., Credit: Youth Radio
In an age when handguns are bought and sold for less than twenty-dollars on urban street corners and the price of a human life sometimes seems even...

Bought by PRX Remix and WMNF


  • Added: Dec 08, 2008
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 2
Religion Gets Me High
From: Youth Outlook
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This week on YO!Radio -- father and son go on 3 million dollar spacewalk, girls outsmart boy and religion is the anti-drug. PLUS: Youth Speaks goes...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2008
  • Length: 07:22
Short Wave: Something Positive
From: Radio Rookies
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Sharee Johnson wants to find out if Barack Obama can inspire positive change in her community.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2008
  • Length: 04:58
The Election -- Now That's Entertainment
From: Youth Outlook
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This week on YO!Radio -- Powell endorses Obama, Japanese teens don't want voting rights and brit burglar sends victim flowers.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2008
  • Length: 06:10
Dancing Dads Make Your Cheeks Go Red
From: Youth Outlook
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This week on YO!Radio -- Poverty gets trumped by the political bonanza, teens get a 'How to Guide' in dealing with the cops, and why teens cringe w...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2008
  • Length: 07:56
Legal Emancipation
From: Radio Rookies
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At 15 emancipation has brought both freedom and hardship for Radio Rookie Jordan Teklay. Now 17, he's trying to understand what it means to be an a...

Bought by The Story, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 01, 2008
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 4

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