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I spoke with my best friend, my mother, and my coach about the roles of a young woman in the household, as dictated by East African culture.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Aug 19, 2011
- Length: 10:34
- Purchases: 1
A conversation with science blogger Danielle Lee about the ways she’s using hip hop songs and backyard wildlife to reach out to young people in und...
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 09:46
A conversation with science blogger Danielle Lee about the ways she’s using hip hop songs and backyard wildlife to reach out to young people in und...
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 03:41
Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Center in Syracuse, New York works with troubled youth - yet it isn't a "lock em up, throw away the key" kind of place...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 21, 2011
- Length: 07:25
- Purchases: 1
I wanted to talk to people personally about the impact of not having a father around. These two women, a mother and daughter, both explain their li...
- Added: Jul 21, 2011
- Length: 04:50
I wanted to know how my peers felt about their skin color. Their answers contradict rigid popular ideas of an ideal skin color.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 07, 2011
- Length: :47
- Purchases: 1
As of 2009, only a quarter of 18-24 year old black men were enrolled in college. But one Oakland foundation is trying to make this a thing of the p...
- Added: Jun 15, 2011
- Length: 04:54
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 05:10
- Purchases: 1
Two first-person stories about the struggle for home. Shortly after being promoted and relocated from New York to Miami, Rob Robinson is laid off a...
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- Added: May 09, 2011
- Length: 13:07
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Poet Bryan Byrdlong, 17, is a senior at Whitney Young; he competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing his high school.
The subject of Pops is...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:27
Poet Kush Thompson, 16, is a junior at Orr Academy; she competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing her high school.
When asked about the sub...
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- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 1
Poet Ashaki Howard, 17, is a senior at Kenwood Academy and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Epic Sound representing her high...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:48
Poet Christian Robinson, 18, is a senior at Oak Park and River Forest High School; he competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing his high sch...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:32
Poet Melana Bass, 17, is a junior at TEAM Englewood; she competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing her high school.
‘What would I do withou...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:36
Poet Malcolm London, 17, is a senior at Lincoln Park High School and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a
member of team Youmedia Chicago.
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- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:11
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
Youth Radio Programmer Taylor Griffin interviewed distinguished professor of Sociology at Georgetown University Dr. Michael Eric Dyson. Dr. Dyson w...
- Added: Feb 28, 2011
- Length: 11:53
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
In 2003, Carolyn's 15-year-old daughter, Ortralla, was brutally stabbed by her boyfriend in the hallway of Reagan High School in Austin, TX. Caroly...
- Added: Jan 30, 2011
- Length: 24:45
How do educators make sure students don’t suffer for the way they talk?
- Added: Jan 27, 2011
- Length: 28:57
This is a telling of Virginia Hamilton's American Black Folktale "The People Could Fly."
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioFreePalmer, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WSLR, WDBM and more
- Added: Jan 20, 2011
- Length: 11:11
- Purchases: 11
Thomas McCall, a 20-year-old student-athlete and father-to-be, was already struggling to make it in the American job market. Courtney Supple produc...
- Added: Nov 16, 2010
- Length: 02:39
Turning what i knew into musical notation about what i was feeling that day.
- Added: Oct 22, 2010
- Length: :57
How could anybody be blind to the fact that, underneath it all, we’re all just shadows?
- Added: Oct 05, 2010
- Length: 02:15
- Purchases: 3
The Youth News Initiative creates a platform for young women of color to give their unique perspective on issues they face in their communities.
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- Added: Sep 23, 2010
- Length: 06:03
- Purchases: 1
