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Episode 5: A Mental Health Journey
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files
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Several youth describe their strategies and therapies for mental wellness. Powerful and helpful recovery stories for all ages.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
GJ Dance Commentary
From: Generation Justice Admin
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This week on Generation Justice, we shared with you a special segment with GJ Intern, Madhumita Santhanam,

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 03:56
DJ Carrot talks Black Pink on K-Popcast
From: KXCI
Series: Bonus Tracks
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DJ Carrot premieres her “K-popcast” series and discusses the K-pop girl group sensation Black Pink. She discusses the group’s history, albums, coll...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2023
  • Length: 02:15
Coping 101: Honoring Ancestry w/ Monyee Chau
From: C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
Series: Coping 101
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Through intersectional lenses of being Queer and Taiwanese/Chinese, the prolific Seattle artist and maker Monyee Chau discusses honoring ancestry a...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 32:11
Yes, I'm from China. And yes those people are my parents
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Maya and her parents., Credit: Courtesy of Maya Konz
The first thing you say to someone you just met is most likely a polite greeting: "Hello! What's your name?" But not everyone is that thoughtful.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
I was homeless and my life was trash. Then this Seattle family took me in
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: April Reyes (far left) with the family who took her in. From left to right: Mariya Manuel, Tanya Kim, Tamar Manuel and Alan Lee., Credit: Courtesy of April Reyes
For most people, family will always be family because you're blood. But in April Reyes' case, it doesn’t quite work that way. / This story won the ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 2
A pep talk from a recovering 'lazy' teen
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Diana Nguyen used to be lazy. Then she got on a bike., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/MELISSA TAKAI
Laziness is a hard habit to break, especially if you want to make the most out of life. But it helps if you have a bike, or at least it did for one...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 04:59
Albinism And Me: How My Genetic Condition Makes My Ethnicity Invisible
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Kamna Shastri with her dad on her fifth birthday. Now, Kamna is coming to terms with her albinism., Credit: COURTESY OF KAMNA SHASTRI
RadioActive producer Kamna Shastri tries to understand where she fits into conversations about race and identity as an Indian-American with albinism.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 03:52
Won't You Be My Neighbor? An Audio Portrait of Seattle's Neighborhoods
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Podcasts
Caption: RadioActive's Nina Tran went on a bicycle tour of her south Beacon Hill neighborhood. Listen to the podcast to hear what she found., Credit: KUOW PHOTO / NINA TRAN
Neighborhoods shape our perspectives and our personalities. They become a part of us, an identity we carry even if we leave. On the latest RadioAct...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 19:21
What Does Colorism Look Like In Seattle?
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Podcasts
Caption: RadioActive youth producers Ahlaam Ibraahim and Esa Tilija. Ibraahim says 'when you're born, they call you a lighty, and it's praised.', Credit: Esa Tilija
"When you're born, they call you a lighty, and it's praised." RadioActive Youth Producers Ahlaam Ibraahim and Esa Tilija explore the world of colo...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 14:18
These Are My Mom's Beautiful, Painful Hands
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Shina William's mother worked for many years in factories. When she was working she felt a pain, tingling over her hands., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/SHINA WILLIAMS
Look at your hands, and think of all the things you do with them: hold an ice cream cone, drive your car, scroll through Facebook. What if all of t...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 2
Where are you from?
From: Terrascope Radio
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"Where are you from? ... No, where are you REALLY from?" Because of her skin tone and features, Milani Chatterji-Len gets asked this question all t...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2016
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 2
The Asian-American Juggling Act
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Caption: Taiwanese American Hairol Ma struggles with finding her place in upstate New York., Credit: Anjani Iman
Westernized Asian-Americans across the United States struggle with finding their place in a seemingly divided country between white people and fore...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 1
Beats to a New Drum
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
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The realm of South Korean pop music is now not only popular among fans in South Korea but also among those in the United States. Listen to its fier...

  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:56
On A Visit To The United States, A First Encounter With Racism
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: RadioActive's Kamna Shastri and her cousin Ananya Shankar in Seattle, Credit: Jenny Asarnow
A 13-year-old girl in Chennai, India, had always wanted to visit the United States. But when she does, her idealized view of America is tested by t...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
Every Room Has a Story
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2014
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Our Stories youth fellows introduce us to the friendly people and flourishing communities of Austin's Asian American Resource Center.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2014
  • Length: 04:20
The World and Traffic Lights
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
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You hear about it all the time, but how many people truly know what diversity is all about? Can a traffic light teach us?

  • Added: Mar 14, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Head Over Heels for Cooking
From: Philly Youth Radio
Series: At the Heart, From the Heart
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It's often said that love can be transformative. For Philly Youth Radio's Dinh To, the saying couldn't be more true. Two years ago, Dinh moved from...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 04:01
To Date or Not To Date? That is the Chinese Immigrant Teenager's Question
From: Philly Youth Radio
Series: At the Heart, From the Heart
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Philly Youth Radio’s Yingci Chen is a first generation Chinese immigrant. She's noticed that Chinese immigrant parents often don't want their kids ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 2
Gamun-Pyul
From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: Flushing 2010
Caption: Rayon Wright with K-Pop Artist JYP
18 year old Caribbean American, Rayon Wright, sets out to be a K-Pop producer.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 16, 2012
  • Length: 08:27
  • Purchases: 3
Akinori Itagaki: Now Young People Are Talking About Nuclear Power in Japan
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Messages from Japan
Caption: Messages from Japan, Credit: Eleanor Graf
Akinori Adachi is an exchange student from Japan who is currently studying in Maine. He says that before the nuclear crisis in Fukushima caused by ...

Bought by KZYX and WMPG


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 01:19
  • Purchases: 2
See Pha's Report on Hmong New Year
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
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The Asian Club at Minneapolis Edison High School puts on a yearly Hmong New Year event. It features elaborate Hmong clothing, as well as as a feast...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
Japanese-American granddaughter questions internment
From: MPR News Stations
Series: MPR News' Youth Series
Caption: Mara Kumagai Fink (right) interviewing her great aunt Matsue at Manzanar, the camp she was brought to in northern California.
Mara Kumagai Fink explores her family's experiences in the internment camps during WWII. Mara spent the summer interviewing family members and revi...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WRST-FM Oshkosh, WGXC, Vocalo.org, KUNM and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2010
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 6
Olympic Spirit in Chinatown
From: Chinatown Youth Radio Philadelphia
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Philadelphia Chinatown celebrates an "Evening of Champions"

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 01:50
The Chinatown Friendship Gate
From: Chinatown Youth Radio Philadelphia
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The icon of Philadelphia Chinatown gets a makeover

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1