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Caption: Brenda, 19, walks through her Minneapolis neighborhood. She's been living as an illegal immigrant in Minnesota since she was 7 years old., Credit: MPR Photo/Jeff Thompson
When Brenda was 7, she was carried across the border from Mexico. Now 19, the Minneapolis teen wishes she could live and work legally in the countr...

Bought by WTIP, WGXC, KUNM, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, and KSFR


  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 5
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Can environmentalism, cultural theory and marketing work together? Is Walmart green beyond the bills in the cash registers? Producer Isaac Woodbury...

Bought by PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WMPG


  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Thanks to Mint.com/blog and Wallstats.com for the image!, Credit: mint.com/blog, and wallstats.com
A vox pop asking people what they would do with one trillion dollars, and what IS a trillion dollars.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 03:41
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Community member Sally Shepard fights the odds and her health to launch a successful parade in Frogtown, St. Paul.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2010
  • Length: 05:11
Caption: Lia and hannah from the Heinrich-Roller Schule berlin
Listen to children from Berlin,Germany and Scottsville U.S "Skype" with each. The topics are; daily life, global envoirmental problems and the r...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2010
  • Length: 30:00
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News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2010
  • Length: 08:35
Caption: An Afghan laborer holds a cup of tea., Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Apr 23, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
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Youth Producer Dolna Smithback spent a week with the Global Youth Leadership Institute documenting year one of the program, "aboard the Amsted scho...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 05:50
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In Boston's densest neighborhood, the Chinatown Storefront Library converted a vacant commercial space into a thriving community center. And then i...

Bought by XRAY.fm and YouthCast


  • Added: Feb 17, 2010
  • Length: 13:44
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Blackfire, Credit: Blackfire
A radio series put together by 7th and 8th graders at Roots and Wings Community School. In this piece, Jojo Edwards interviews alter-native punk ba...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Dec 18, 2009
  • Length: 01:58:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Tiger Radio producers Ariana Tabaku and Paola Encarcion hit the streets of DC to find out what people think is the biggest conflict in the world.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 03:35
Caption: ice bear
A varied sport show for you, with live interviews by our Transatlantic reporter, Chance, interviewing one of the Harlem Globtrotters just before hi...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2009
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Anastacio y los del Monte
Música estilo Reggae, con letras que hablan de la historia del país o la sociedad salvadoreña en su mayoría.

  • Added: Nov 04, 2009
  • Length: 34:38
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Teenagers talk about the realities of their sex lives and what they've figured out this far.

Bought by KZYX and Remix Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 2
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Youth journalists reflect and comment on their experiences with presidential candidates.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: 12:18
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Youth reporters talked with youth from around the country to get their perspective on the future.

Bought by YouthCast


  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Y-Press journalists attended both 2008 Democratic and Republican conventions creating a diverse body of work, including radio pieces, audio-slide s...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: 04:06
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Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper announced the 2008 Democratic National Convention was "going to be the greenest in history." In this report, Y-Press...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: 04:35
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Teen spending averages 125 billion dollars a year, but as Asha Richardson reports, 2009 is likely to be a different story.

Bought by WMNF, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 05, 2009
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 3
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Marshall Campus (formerly Marshall High School) is divided up in three autonomous small schools. Why can't we use each other's bathrooms.

  • Added: Mar 30, 2009
  • Length: 02:30
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Youth Mic asks people what they think about how media portrays beauty.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2009
  • Length: 03:21
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From "Pen to Paper" (March 13, 2009): War News Radio finds out about how a veterans center founded by a Vietnam vet is helping those returning from...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 06:36
Caption: Youth Radio reporter Ayesha Walker., Credit: Youth Radio
In an age when handguns are bought and sold for less than twenty-dollars on urban street corners and the price of a human life sometimes seems even...

Bought by PRX Remix and WMNF


  • Added: Dec 08, 2008
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 2
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When gas prices shot past 4 dollars a gallon this year, commentator King Anyi Howell noticed that no longer were parental curfews curtailing his fu...

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: Dec 08, 2008
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Youth Radio Reporter Pendarvis Harshaw., Credit: Ayesha Walker
Youth Radio's Pendarvis Harshaw says that for a lot of his friends, the transition from having sex with a condom to sex without, is seen as a symbo...

Bought by WMNF and WMNF


  • Added: Dec 05, 2008
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 2