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These days, many teenagers live half their lives on social media sites, and they're writing the rules as they go. One online trend 16-year-old Radi...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 16, 2013
- Length: 08:24
- Purchases: 1
High School student Lexy recalls her first crush on a girl. Short, personal essay.
- Added: Dec 30, 2012
- Length: 03:20
1, 2, 3, 4....Youth producers at Gorzycki Middle School explore dance.
- Added: Dec 18, 2012
- Length: 02:33
It's not always easy to examine yourself in front of the mirror, especially as you acknowledge out loud what you consider to be your deepest physic...
- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 04:12
Rachel, at 16 years old, pushed herself through the rigors of training for and completing a 1/2 Ironman Triathlon to raise money to vaccinate 1,000...
- Added: Sep 01, 2012
- Length: 12:13
Listening to Chloe (a 16 year old) play the violin is listening to an inspired, emotional, and technical artist. But Chloe doesn’t agree. Focused...
- Added: Sep 01, 2012
- Length: 07:37
In surprising and sometimes shocking detail, Kaycee shares what her life in a gang entailed, how her teachers changed her life, and how she's pursu...
- Added: Sep 01, 2012
- Length: 16:04
By Marcheta Fornoff. Michelle Zimmerman balances life between school to become a dental hygienist, and hitting the gym to train as a bodybuilder. T...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 01:39
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 19, 2012
- Length: 03:43
Fourteen-year-old Krysta had always secretly wanted to be a model, but she didn't know anything about the business. She decided to interview a form...
- Added: May 22, 2012
- Length: 05:09
Poet Asha Ransby-Sporn, 17, is a senior at University of Chicago Laboratory High School. This is her first year participating in Louder Than a Bom...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 02:43
Poet Kush Thompson, 17, is a senior at Orr Academy High School, but she was representing YOUmedia Chicago in this year's competition. This is her ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 03:14
Classical piano or "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"--makes no difference, as long as Aleksya can be onstage, performing for an audience.
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 02:20
It's just a simple office, but for some students it's like a home, complete with an "adoptive mother." It's a routine place made special.
- Added: Mar 21, 2012
- Length: 02:27
For one Indian classical singer, a crowded little apartment in Queens--or even just the sound of a shruthi box (an Indian-style musical drone)--bri...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 21, 2012
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 03:27
Maria Isabel wasn't supposed to finish the 6th grade. She lived in a tiny mountain ranch in Mexico, where girls stayed home to cook and raise child...
Bought by Radio Catskill and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 13:58
- Purchases: 2
Youth producer Gracia Manzanares' touching interview with her mother about immigrating to the United States and the differences between women in Me...
- Added: Sep 26, 2011
- Length: 03:07
For fourteen years, a singular event has shaped Valencia McMurray's life: her mother, Charlene Sanders, was violently attacked by her father when s...
Bought by WGXC
- Added: Aug 14, 2011
- Length: 09:54
- Purchases: 1
16-year-old Desii Armendariz hates Seventeen Magazine with a "burning" passion.
This piece contains the word "damn" at 46 seconds.
- Added: May 24, 2011
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 2
Drunk with knowledge, and slightly scared by its implications, Sam considers how best to use her new powers. Drama serial, set in a call centre for...
- Added: May 24, 2011
- Length: 14:25
Youth producers Anai Fuentes and Carla Roman describe the process of a traditional Mexican wedding, through interviews with their mothers. Produce...
Bought by KUT
- Added: May 23, 2011
- Length: 06:27
- Purchases: 1
PRODUCIDO EN ESPANOL. Las productoras juveniles Anai Fuentes y Carla Roman describen el proceso de la boda Mexicana entrevistando a sus madres. P...
Bought by KUER
- Added: May 03, 2011
- Length: 06:27
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 13, 2011
- Length: 03:44
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
