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From: Generation Justice Admin
Generation Justice celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day! We read some impactful words from Dr. Bernice King, his daughter, regarding the trage...
- Added: Jan 30, 2024
- Length: 04:14
Several youth describe their strategies and therapies for mental wellness. Powerful and helpful recovery stories for all ages.
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Oct 30, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
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
Long time GJ member Jonquilyn Hill speaks with us about her new podcast Through the Cracks.
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 58:18
Hi I’m Makayla and my piece is about my adventures being a fifth grade reject.
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 13:40
In the Summer of 2020, we revisit a discussion on police killings of Black people from 2016 after the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castil...
- Added: Jul 02, 2020
- Length: 59:03
Juan de Onate is responsible for brutalizing New Mexico’s Indigenous people...hear more about the history of the Spanish colonizer.
- Added: Jul 02, 2020
- Length: 59:02
This hour is dedicated to listening to members of our Black community. They share their experience and responses to recent social uprisings and the...
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 59:08
When Hurricane Florence hit coastal North Carolina, Shecoria Smith, age 16, was worried about her father returning from a work trip.
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 02:49
An emotional and poetic tour of a day in the life of a youth at Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 07:13
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
Growing up Ova East wasn't no joke.
- Added: Feb 04, 2016
- Length: 02:54
Officer Denise Cookie Boulden is a Detective for the Seattle Police Department.
She’s well known for her work with youth and the elderly.
Detecti...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 06:31
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
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
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
Dayquan, a student at Harrison High School, tells about the experiences that hade him what he is. A good deal of pathos is included.
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 01:35
- Purchases: 2
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
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: 01:58
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: 02:04
I spoke with my best friend, my mother, and my coach about the roles of a young woman in the household, as dictated by East African culture.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Aug 19, 2011
- Length: 10:34
- Purchases: 1
Turning what i knew into musical notation about what i was feeling that day.
- Added: Oct 22, 2010
- Length: :57
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
A documentary exploring sickle cell disease and an extraordinary doctor who is fighting the illness in Philadelphia and West Africa.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCMJ Community Radio, WRGY, KUNM, KUNM and more
- Added: Jul 26, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 14
