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This week's stories are about words, and the silences between sentences. Madelyn Young reaches out to one of her students, Robin Satterfield strugg...
Bought by PRX Remix, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Pat remembers his step-mother, Barbara Jean, from the first time they met, to the last time he saw her. Though the 11 years in between were sometim...
- Added: Jun 28, 2011
- Length: 08:26
- Purchases: 2
Paulette Mehta witnesses a painful goodbye, Frank Thurmond travels around the world to meet his father for the first time, and Judy Stokley copes w...
- Added: Jun 15, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Award-winning author Kevin Brockmeier returns to his childhood hometown only to find it has changed as much as he has. Southern-style storytelling ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 29:00
When Grace was a child, she and her mom moved out to a remote piece of the Arizona desert to live off the land. Things didn't work out exactly the ...
Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, WTIP, PRX Remix, YouthCast, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 07, 2011
- Length: 08:16
- Purchases: 5
Poet Sarah Bruno, 18, is a senior at Walter Payton College Prep and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Youmedia Chicago.
Expl...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:46
Poet Nina Coomes, 17, is a senior at Northside College Prep; she competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing her high school.
Her piece, Pret...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:51
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 Cecilia (Ce-Ce) Tate, 16, is a sophomore at Curie Metro High and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Lyrical Revolution re...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:58
Poet Benj Sullivan-Knoff, 18, is a senior at Northside College Prep; he competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing his high school.
His piec...
- 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
A student at United World College, Nelson Diaz Monterrosa, worked with Youth Media Project's Summer Intensive 2010 to produce this moving piece abo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 05:17
- Purchases: 2
If Pat could tell his late step-mother, Barbara Jean, one thing, it's that he probably should have listened to her advice.
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 2
"IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK: Inside Youth Speak Out" is a poetry series drawn from testimonial writings by the youngest members of America's prison ...
Bought by WGDR
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 14:58
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 18, 2010
- Length: 01:02
- Purchases: 2
Sealed explores divorce and its lingering effects. Nearly two decades after their parents’ separation, four siblings reflect on its aftermath.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 12, 2010
- Length: 22:22
- Purchases: 1
A poem by three students from the Santa Fe Indian School's Spoken Word team -- Santana Shorty, Clara Natonabah, and Nolan Eskeets -- about understa...
- Added: Apr 21, 2010
- Length: 03:38
Vicky was living in a tough situation in Phoenix, AZ. Her mom had told her that her father didn't want anything to do with her. But one day Vicky f...
Bought by WGXC
- Added: Apr 12, 2010
- Length: 06:51
- Purchases: 1
Don't spend the next 10 years paying off your college loans.
- Added: Mar 22, 2010
- Length: 03:26
- Added: Mar 20, 2010
- Length: 02:25
- Purchases: 1
Tattoos have surpassed lockets as a way of keeping memories close.
- Added: Feb 03, 2010
- Length: 04:06
A portrait of Mike Butler: Irish-American tannery worker, avid gambler, and, in the eyes of three young boys growing up in suburban Massachusetts ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2009
- Length: 11:35
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Aug 25, 2009
- Length: 04:58
For the first time in 14 years teen pregnancy is on the rise. The Centers for Disease Control reports that during 2005 to 2006 teen pregnancy rose ...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jul 28, 2009
- Length: 03:06
- Purchases: 1
18-year old Jessika Monroe says the challenges she faces as young mother only is a motivation for her success. Pregnant with her second child she's...
- Added: Jul 28, 2009
- Length: 02:10
