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Caption: Seventeen-year-old Sophia Angelica Delgado Feliciano says for a long time she used emotional distance as a survival tool. Today she's thriving. (Courtesy of Sophia Delgado), Credit: (Courtesy of Sophia Delgado)
In North Philadelphia, some teen girls live by the credo: “cold is cute.” Anger and emotional distance are crucial survival tools. For Sophia Delga...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 04:28
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Follow Sierra on her progressive college journey as she realizes that finding the right college is as difficult as Goldilocks finding the right bo...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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Joshua Williams struggles every day paying for food and finding a place just to sleep. Listen to an American teenager who has been homeless.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 05:11
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Jabari Omari dealt with adulthood much sooner than the typical teenager. This is his story of being forced to grow up way too fast.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 05:41
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For LaKeva Brown, finishing school comes with an added caveat: eviction. In LaKeva's situation, she must prepare to support herself.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:40
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Caelin Robinson learns how stressful running a household can be from his mother. The insight she provides him will change his life.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 05:43
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La' Trisha Dillon has to confront the financial consequences of a serious relationship coming to an end. In doing so, she's pushed to her limits.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 05:18
Caption: James at Phillips Exeter
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

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 12:52
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: 04:44
Caption: Addie Malone
In the summer of 2012 WUNC established its first ever Youth Radio Institute. The station hired five young people -- and two mentors -- to produce r...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 05:57
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Aspergers, in my opinion, has always been misunderstood due to it being a medical "condition." When you listen to this, I ask that you go in with ...

Bought by HowSound, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis, KSFR and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 8
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The World Cup in My Village youth journalists held a radio discussion to debate the reasons that young Zambians struggle at school. Malnutrition ke...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2010
  • Length: 01:43
Caption: RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, Columbus, GA
An observation on the city of Columbus, GA and the arts departments of Columbus State University told with sounds of the street and downtown founta...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2010
  • Length: 04:14
Caption: Mark and his two brothers
Both of Mark's brothers have had cancer, but he hasn't.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2010
  • Length: 03:21
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Emmanuel Woanyean, 16, from Monrovia, Liberia, was first in his class and wants to be an engineer -- but he can’t afford the university fees.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2010
  • Length: 07:02
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This Story is free! A young girl tells the story of her life in Liberia and why girls education is so important to her and her family. Youth Produ...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2007
  • Length: 04:36
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A fourteen year-old Catholic schoolgirl looks for answers about sex from a nun, a downtown clinic and a pharamacy.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Aug 27, 2007
  • Length: 05:21
  • Purchases: 1
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Audio portrait of "idealistic college student" James Hannaway, Carleton Class of 2009

  • Added: Nov 06, 2005
  • Length: 03:16
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This is the story of Amy graduating from high school while incarcerated at the Long Creek Youth Development Center (LCYDC) in South Portland, ME. )

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: May 17, 2004
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1