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In 2010, Michael McIntosh’s son was incarcerated at the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility in the small town of Walnut Grove, Mississippi. On...
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 32:55
Black girls make up for more than one-third of all girls with school related arrests. Yet, they comprise just 16-percent of female students.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Finnie Coleman talks about what the Movement for Black Lives is really about, the history of police brutality, how he prepares his son to enter...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 18:06
New voter identification laws could sharply curb voter participation in N.C. and other states, says Duke University historian Gunther Peck.
- Added: May 18, 2016
- Length: 02:14
Growing up Ova East wasn't no joke.
- Added: Feb 04, 2016
- Length: 02:54
You’ve probably heard by now that TV On the Radio almost gave it all up before deciding to forge ahead, eventually resulting in last year’s Seeds, ...
Bought by KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Nov 16, 2015
- Length: 07:06
- Purchases: 3
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
Coach Roscoe Bryant and filmmaker Eugene Corr talk baseball, family values, and the importance of play.
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 28:01
Jaylen Wheeler is a student at University Prep in north Seattle. Follow him through his role as the odd one out.
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 05:43
- Purchases: 2
On this episode of Making It Work we will chat with Susan Mernit about her latest non-profit organization, Hack the Hood, and how they are making a...
- Added: Jun 15, 2015
- Length: 24:25
Radio Curious visits with Dr. Joseph Marshall, co-founder of Alive and Free, a community violence prevention effort for at-risk inner city youth to...
- Added: May 05, 2015
- Length: 29:01
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
Since last August, the cultural conversation has centered on #blacklivesmatter, Ferguson and the death of Eric Garner. But it’s less common to hear...
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 02:43
Beginning next fall, all San Francisco public schools will offer a class called Ethnic Studies. It’s a look at American history and culture from th...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 1
What makes a hero? Why do we remember some stories and not others?
Consider Claudette Colvin. She was a 15-year-old girl in the segregated city of...
Bought by KUNM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, PRX Remix, and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Mar 05, 2015
- Length: 09:19
- Purchases: 5
Emmanuel Johnson is a senior at Riverside High School in Durham, N.C. As a part of WUNC's Youth Radio Project, he reports on a changing neighborhoo...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 1
In this piece, a middle school poet from Minneapolis tells of his background, including slavery and citizenship.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 19, 2014
- Length: 01:25
- Purchases: 1
Christopher Paul Curtis talks about making history real for young readers [34:01]
Bought by Harford Community Radio and KPIP-LP
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 29:06
- Purchases: 2
It’s audition day for Beyond Idol. Contestants pace around a large waiting area at Laney College, practicing softly to themselves as they wait for ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 08:36
Paramedic Rowan Allen talks to Bryan Lindsay about the day he saved his life.
- Added: Jul 26, 2013
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 2
My Choice My Voice teens Wanya Ramsey and Frank D interview Black Kold Madina a.k.a. Kimberly Roberts about her award winning film "Trouble the Wat...
- Added: Jul 09, 2013
- Length: 06:43
Part 1 of an interview with indie- hip-hop artist, One Be Lo.
- Added: Feb 22, 2013
- Length: 03:36
Many songs, books, and movies focus on love and romance, but what happens when they become one’s only source for learning? Philly Youth Radio’s Jay...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 12, 2013
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 3
New York State has the worst high school graduation rate in the country, according to a recent study by the Schott Foundation for Public Education....
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 16, 2013
- Length: 06:18
- 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: 01:26
