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When someone is imprisoned, it doesn’t just affect the incarcerated. It affects the people left behind. Young people. Nearly three million children...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 07:33
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
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
Seventeen years after Darius Clark Monroe robbed a bank at gunpoint, he came to StoryCorps...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 2
When Jeff Rogers was 16 years old he started referring to himself as a “halfrican.” Jeff has a black father and a white mother. And like many teena...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 23, 2014
- Length: 19:02
- Purchases: 1
Reverend Hill discusses the history of Grant Chapel, and the A.M.E. church as a whole, connecting its founding as a rejection of discrimination to ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2014
- Length: 25:35
Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg with Roots Music Icon Taj Mahal. A discussion about the genesis of roots music and the music ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 11:13
For close to 40 years, the first weekend of October has brought something unusual to the urban byways of West Oakland: cowboys, on horseback, ridin...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 06:27
- Purchases: 1
Charles-Austin Ross tells about his family, growing up, and finding his voice when opposition might stand in the way of his future.
- Added: Sep 26, 2013
- Length: 03:32
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
Paramedic Rowan Allen talks to Bryan Lindsay about the day he saved his life.
- Added: Jul 26, 2013
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 2
Melvin talks about what it's like being from New Orleans.
- Added: Jul 12, 2013
- Length: 01:20
My Choice My Voice teen talks about his transformation from a "troubled kid" to a high school graduate headed to college. Meanwhile, we hear his re...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jul 11, 2013
- Length: 12:37
- Purchases: 1
Adrian Hawkins talks to his foster father, Horace Atwater Jr.
- Added: Jun 14, 2013
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 2
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: 01:19
Tyrese Graham remembers his first day as a teacher at John Marshall Metropolitan High School in Chicago, IL.
- Added: May 29, 2012
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 2
Youth producer Rochelle Smith gets to the real meaning of Thanksgiving with her family. Produced at LBJ High School in Austin, Texas, as a part of...
- Added: Mar 02, 2011
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 2
Malcolm is a junior at Lincoln Park High School in Chicago. He competed in the final round of competition in the 2010 Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetr...
Bought by KUER and Remix Radio
- Added: Apr 01, 2010
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
