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In less than a year, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has re-energized the conversation about income inequality, provided a forum for a wide array of cause...
- Added: May 08, 2012
- Length: 15:19
The emergency room at Indianapolis' Wishard Hospital sees its fair share of gun shot victims, both teenagers and adults. Y-Press visited Wishard to...
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 04:18
As the Supreme Court Justices listen to lawyers try to find the legal logic in requiring people to buy health insurance, let us remember that peopl...
- Added: Mar 28, 2012
- Length: 06:45
How can we make schools safer without criminalizing youth? How can we confront bias violence? What kinds of restorative practices should we impleme...
Bought by KPVL
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 05:47
- Purchases: 1
The problem of gun violence among teens and young adults isn’t exclusive to Indianapolis. But it turns out that the way the city is tackling the pr...
- Added: Mar 16, 2012
- Length: 03:42
In the last decade in Indiana, about 130 murders were committed by teens, and 79 percent of those involved a firearm. After a Y-Presser lost her co...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 1
Did you know that between 2005-2010 public access television stations have been shutting down across the nation? In Albuquerque, New Mexico public...
- Added: Nov 30, 2011
- Length: 16:27
Shrinking school budgets and cuts to classes and staff are serious problems that will need answering, but it's gradution season, and that's cause f...
- Added: Jun 15, 2011
- Length: 05:17
Think about your neighborhood. Your house. The street. Does your neighborhood have a playground? If yes, you’re one of the lucky ones. And if not, ...
- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 05:28
Reporters Jerry Cruz and Allison Albrecht follow students' motivations and decision processes in finding which Chicago public school's style best f...
Bought by WGXC
- Added: Apr 28, 2011
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 21, 2011
- Length: :30
California’s attorney general says the state has a correctional crisis.
KAMALA HARRIS: We have a prison system right now that is accommodating twi...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 10:44
Bill Gates is spending one billion dollars in two years to eradicate polio. Although a deadly and crippling disease, it is extremely hard to end an...
- Added: Mar 18, 2011
- Length: 02:00
There’s been a quiet revolution in America’s schools over recent decades. We’ve added an extra grade to a child’s education: Preschool. (10/29/2009)
Bought by WMUU-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WSKG, KPIP-LP, KMUZ and more
- Added: Mar 17, 2011
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 9
La vida de jóvenes refugiados en Estados Unidos. Stories of Refugee Youth in America.
- Added: Feb 10, 2011
- Length: 28:04
If you’re a young person looking for a job, it looks pretty dismal out there, and it may not brighten up anytime soon. On this edition of How We Su...
Bought by WCSU-FM, WXVU 89.1 FM Villanova, and KZYX
- Added: Nov 16, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Stretched by fighting two wars, the US military has stepped up efforts to recruit teenagers and young adults. Guest host Anna Sussman hosts a roun...
Bought by 90.5 WSNC
- Added: Oct 19, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Amelie Ramirez, director of Salud America!,a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national research program and network to prevent obesity among Lati...
- Added: Jun 23, 2010
- Length: 26:17
KOTO RESTAURANT IN HANOI, VIETNAM, HELPS UNDERPRIVILIEGED TEENAGERS GAIN JOB SKILLS NECESSARY TO ESCAPE POVERTY.
- Added: May 12, 2010
- Length: 28:00
From the Sudan Radio Project: we hear about a Sudanese NGO that is working to get out the vote for the upcoming national elections.
- Added: Feb 07, 2010
- Length: 05:18
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
Youth journalists reflect and comment on their experiences with presidential candidates.
- Added: Jul 28, 2009
- Length: 12:18
Just as Gen. David Petraeus was rolling out "soft-power" tactics in Iraq, WBRU News aired this feature on the community end of Providence's communi...
- Added: Jun 09, 2009
- Length: 07:12
School on Wheels is a non-profit program located in Los Angeles which pairs volunteer tutors to homeless students.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and CKMO
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 03:09
- Purchases: 3
IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2009
- Length: 54:15
