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Sylvia Santos looks into this fashion trend.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 07:26
Caption: Natalie Richardson, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Natalie Richardson, 17, is a senior at Oak Park and River Forest High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the third time this ye...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Malcolm London, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Malcolm London, 19, participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the third time this year. One of Chicago's most remarkable writers, Malcolm masterf...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Mia Harris, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Mia Harris, 17, is a junior at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the second time this ye...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kush Thompson, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Kush Thompson, 18, participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the fourth time this year. Her piece "The Blind Side (Live!) or When White Women Rai...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Keenan Davis, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Keenan Davis, 19, is a junior at Youth Connection Leadership Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the second time this year. His...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tanya Smith, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Tanya Smith, 18, is a member of the Kuumba Lynx poetry team and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the fourth time this year. Her piece "A...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Chelsea Dixon, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Chelsea Dixon, 16, is a sophomore at Oak Park and River Forest High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time this year...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:45
Caption: Savia Gordon, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Savia Gordon, 18, is a senior at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the fourth time this ...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Destiny McClendon, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Destiny McClendon, 17, is a senior at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time t...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:50
Caption: Brooks College Prep's Lyrikally Xplicit, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Sex Sells is a team piece about the objectifying stereotypes of women, performed by the poets of Lyrikally Xplicit from Gwendolyn Brooks College Pr...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:57
Caption: Antwon Funches, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Antwon Funches, 15, is a freshman at Simeon Career Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time this year. His piece "You...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:47
Caption: Mariah Starks, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Mariah Starks, 15, is a freshman at Simeon Career Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time this year. Her piece, "The...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:17

  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:15
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Part 1 of an interview with indie- hip-hop artist, One Be Lo.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:36
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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
Caption: Detail of Portraits, Credit: Paintings by Emile B Klein
Tannah and Coley are twin Gospel musicians living in an economically depressed community. Beyond the stereotypes we discover how two high-schoolers...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 15:02
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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Nearly 100,000 Americans suffer from a blood disorder called Sickle Cell Anemia, a painful disease that shortens life-expectancy. Sickle cells aren...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 2
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: 01:42
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: 01:26
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: 01:47
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
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: 02:08
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: 01:08