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April 2021 – Bullied gay seventh grader
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Justin
How did he deal with it? Was his school helpful? What did he learn from it?

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
NYC Student Tackles the Last Test Standing Between Her and a High School Diploma
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Educating on the Edge
Caption: Danielle Motindabeka in the WNYC studio
When Radio Rookie Danielle Motindabeka came to the United States at age 13, she didn’t speak English. By the time she was in high school, Danielle ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 1
Marquell, Sharon, and Jane
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
Troubles
From: KBEM
Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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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
My Days are long and Weary
From: KBEM
Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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Dayquan, a student at Harrison Hish School in Minneapolis writes of his heartbreaks.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:39
  • Purchases: 1
Motherless
From: KBEM
Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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Dayquan writes about his struggles losing his mother to death at an early age.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
Hamlin & Chicago by Aliscia Ivy
From: Free Spirit Media
Series: "Where I'm From" North Lawndale College Prep - Collins Campus
Caption: Free Spirit Media
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: 01:25
Where I'm From by Jasmine Bradley
From: Free Spirit Media
Series: "Where I'm From" North Lawndale College Prep - Collins Campus
Caption: Free Spirit Media
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: 01:31
Ms. Joanne Bland Presents: Growing Up in the Segregated South: Selma Voting Rights Movement
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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In 1965 the Southern Christian leadership Conference (SCLC) joined a Joanne Bland is the co-founder of the National Voting Rights Museum and Insti...

Bought by KWMR and WJAB


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 31:50
  • Purchases: 2
Teenaged Angst
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
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
This I Believe - Muhammad Ali
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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To be the “Greatest of All Time,” boxing legend Muhammad Ali says you have to believe in yourself.

Bought by WEZU, KRZA, KFAI Minneapolis, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: May 13, 2009
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 10
This I Believe - Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton believe in forgiveness, but from different perspectives.

Bought by WEZU, KFOK-LPFM, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 4
This I Believe - Russel Honoré
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré believes hard work can build character and promote freedom.

Bought by KPIK-LP, WEZU, KFOK-LPFM, WEZU, WCSU-FM and more


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 6