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Samantha wants to know why so many people in her family have been incarcerated. Her mom tells her it's just "poor choices," but Sam isn't satisfie...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 28, 2019
- Length: 11:56
- Purchases: 2
On a sunny morning during her junior year of high school, Noel Gasca was taking the SAT, when she got to a question that left her stumped. It basic...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Sep 18, 2017
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 1
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Fulmore Middle School 2017
Series: Fulmore Middle School 2017
Latinx identity and speaking Spanish are important to Ms. Ozuna at Fulmore Middle School, who uses her upbringing to connect with her students.
- Added: Jun 05, 2017
- Length: 05:21
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Fulmore Middle School 2017
Series: Fulmore Middle School 2017
A former dancer talks about what it was like to give up dancing to become a teacher.
- Added: Jun 05, 2017
- Length: 02:29
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Martin Middle School 2016-17 Stories
Series: Martin Middle School 2016-17 Stories
Kids at Martin Middle School discuss what Dia de los Muertos means to them.
Bought by RADIOLEX, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 05, 2017
- Length: 03:11
- Purchases: 3
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Martin Middle School 2016-17 Stories
Series: Martin Middle School 2016-17 Stories
Students from Martin Middle School in Austin, Texas explore the legend of the Chupacabra. Produced by Martin students with Stories from Deep in the...
- Added: Jun 05, 2017
- Length: 01:01
Rob grew up in Billings, Montana, as part of a family involved in trafficking meth and other drugs from Mexico. He started doing meth when he was 1...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Apr 04, 2017
- Length: 03:28
- Purchases: 1
Alejandro Macias, is Justice AmeriCorps Fellow and the School Based Program Coordinator at the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center.
- Added: Dec 05, 2016
- Length: 09:25
What she calls “real,” others may call superstition. Sarah Levai, a Romanian immigrant to the United States, came with hopes and dreams, but also w...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 02, 2016
- Length: 01:08
- Purchases: 1
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
In this short piece, Miguel reminisces about watching the 2010 soccer world cup on a day that his mom was off from work-something that doesn't happ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 02:21
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Rio, faces a big identity question. "Am I Mexican? If so how Mexican am I?" Let's just say Rio was raised a bit differently than prior generations ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:44
There is less research on adolescent fathers than on mothers — much less — and most of it focuses on the impact to the child if a dad is not in hi...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 23, 2014
- Length: 10:28
- Purchases: 2
Sixteen-year-old Arturo spent most of his life in what he considers poverty--living on welfare and supported by the Section 8 housing program--but ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 14, 2013
- Length: 05:46
- Purchases: 2
Mmmmm. Tamales! Youth Producer Mariana from Gorzycki Middle School interviews her mother as she shows her how to make Tamales.
- Added: Dec 18, 2012
- Length: 04:30
Shayla Torres is a senior at Community Academy in Philadelphia and is going to college next year. But first, she’ll have to leave her grandparents ...
- Added: May 20, 2012
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 2
Carlos Vigil, from the YouthWorks program in Santa Fe, NM, wrote this poem-rap about growing up poor in New Mexico.
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 01:47
- Purchases: 1
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
17-years-old Vikky Cruz struggles to cope with her mother's illness, a rare genetic disease called neuroacanthytosis, and the ways it's taken over ...
Bought by Vocalo.org and KUOW
- Added: Apr 01, 2010
- Length: 09:37
- Purchases: 2
Rookie Reporter Erikka Diaz, like many of her neighbors in South Bronx, has lived in poverty her whole life. Her family knows well the anxiety that...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, The Story, Vocalo.org, PRX Remix, and KUOW
- Added: Apr 01, 2010
- Length: 09:17
- Purchases: 5
14-year-old Radio Rookie Krystle Monclova has been living in a group home in Manhattan since last summer. She never expected to wind up in "the sys...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jan 09, 2009
- Length: 09:19
- Purchases: 1
WNYC Radio Rookie, Shirley Diaz's life has been shaped by the tragedy of her mother's murder and having been raised in several foster homes. To avo...
- Added: Oct 01, 2008
- Length: 11:42
- Purchases: 8
- Added: Jun 06, 2008
- Length: 01:45
Jennifer talks to her brother through the glass during prison visiting hours.
- Added: Mar 23, 2008
- Length: 02:15
- Purchases: 3
Against his parents' wishes, Luis gets new piercings and explains why.
- Added: Mar 23, 2008
- Length: 02:08
- Added: Dec 05, 2007
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 1
