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When students at Furness High School found out that their school was on the School District's list of potential school closures, they were shocked.
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 04:57
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
Priya Mirmira, age 15, spoke with 18-year-old inmates who were serving time for gun charges. She learned about their attitudes toward guns, how the...
- Added: Mar 16, 2012
- Length: 03:38
In a 2009 survey by the CDC, nearly 1500 Indiana high school students said they had carried a gun for at least one day during the previous 30 days....
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 1
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
In January of 2012, I went on the North Carolina Truth and Hope Poverty Tour hosted by the NC NAACP and the UNC-CH Poverty Center--a two day bus ri...
- Added: Feb 22, 2012
- Length: 06:08
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 01:31
How economic inequality destroys opportunity for the millennial generation.
Bought by KRDP, Vermont Public, WMNF, WNMU-FM, KBRP Community Radio and more
- Added: Feb 10, 2012
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 23
In this episode, youth in and around Santa Fe discuss the world of body modification. From tattoos having symbolic meaning to them being a part of ...
Bought by KUNM, Vocalo.org, and KRZA
- Added: Jan 02, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
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
Vincent Geary studies radio in Brooklyn College's Radio department. He also gambles, betting on sports events along with most of his friends in ...
- Added: Nov 30, 2011
- Length: 11:29
- Purchases: 2
A local art and theater group the We Players has also been in residence on Alcatraz for the past three years. Their work is designed to spark discu...
- Added: Oct 31, 2011
- Length: 05:40
For every one of the 15,000 people incarcerated in New Mexico, there is a family member or a loved one on the outside that has a story.
On this pr...
- Added: Oct 04, 2011
- Length: 43:11
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
Twenty-four-year-old Sokhom Mao was one of California’s foster kids. He’s one of the few who went on to college – in 2010, Mao graduated from San F...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 10:43
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
In Oakland, there are many strategies at play in the struggle to stem violent crime, which has actually decreased in recent years, though it’s stil...
- Added: Apr 04, 2011
- Length: 05:31
This team piece is performed by Youmedia Chicago, comprised of poets: Dominique James, 16, a sophomore at Walter Payton College Prep; Malcolm Londo...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 03:21
Poet Christian Palacios, 16, is a sophomore at Whitney Young; he competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing his high school.
Villians gives ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:49
