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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
A compilation of Episodes 1 and 2 for stations desiring a 59 minute version.)
1) Youth experienced challenges on their mental health during the pa...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Oct 26, 2023
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 1
Youth experienced challenges on their mental health during the pandemic that still continue to this day.
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Oct 21, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Social activism by youth during and after the pandemic helped their mental wellness.
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Oct 21, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes North Carolina Sacred Steel player DaShawn Hickman plus singer and finger...
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 42
Hi I’m Makayla and my piece is about my adventures being a fifth grade reject.
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 13:40
In this hour we hear three stories about what it's like being Black and male in the United States of America. The first story, from season 1 of Un...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 08, 2020
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 12
Over the last forty years, as incarceration has surged across the nation, so has the number of children with a family member...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 09:20
- Purchases: 1
Season 1 Episode 9
A dance troupe of young, Black, male teens express their fear and anxiety about police and how the police might potentially vie...
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- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 09:14
- Purchases: 1
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
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
Saidu Tejan-Thomas is a young poet. For a long time, he had a story he needed to tell: an homage and apology to his mother. It's a tragic love stor...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 38:13
- Purchases: 2
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
Our piece is about Tobias’ brother and Miracle’s uncle and how they live their lives in and outside of prison.
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Aug 08, 2019
- Length: 08:02
- Purchases: 1
Students at several prominent historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), have demanded that school administrators address sexual assault...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Aug 31, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
33-year-old April Gibson talks to her teenage son, Gregory Bess, about how she felt when he was born.
- Added: Jan 25, 2018
- Length: 02:10
- Purchases: 2
For a girl that wasn't supposed to be here, Destiny Roberts has a mission. It's to spread love and acceptance through her music. KFAI's Erianna Jil...
- Added: Mar 22, 2017
- Length: 04:51
Black Lives Matter protesters take over a city council meeting to protest against police killings of blacks, and how Ty're King's death overlapped ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2016
- Length: 03:00
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
Growing up Ova East wasn't no joke.
- Added: Feb 04, 2016
- Length: 02:54
Three Sudanese teens who have immigrated to the U.S. share three very different takes on what it’s like to live here.
- Added: Nov 10, 2015
- Length: 07:15
Charme churns through the rough St. Louis Public Schools while she is going through her gender transition.
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- Added: Aug 31, 2015
- Length: 08:37
- Purchases: 1
Gwen Moten remembers her childhood best friend, Denise McNair, who was killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WTJU
- Added: Jun 26, 2015
- Length: 01:41
- Purchases: 2
Six students from one Seattle high school have died from suicide or murder this year. Why hasn't this tragedy been front-page news? Is it because a...
- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 35:26
