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All for a Library Card
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
Caption: Borrowed and Banned logo, Credit: John Snowden
When a high school teacher in Norman, Oklahoma shared a QR code with her students that would grant them access to BPL’s digital collection, she too...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 25:47
  • Purchases: 1
Drawing Deportation
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Silvia Rodriguez Vega
Family separation. Deportation. Border crossing deaths. Profiling. Limited access to resources such as quality education and healthcare. All of the...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Where Are the Books for Boys? A Conversation With Teacher Misty Jobe and Writer Will Weaver
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
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Who is being represented in new books? We are celebrating and lifting diverse voices in new books, those that have long been silenced but in doing ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2022
  • Length: 14:21
Measure What Matters
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: J.M. Beach
Measuring what and how much students learn is a daunting task. That’s the basic problem for education in America. But when you investigate the educ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
November 2020 – LGBTQ youth react to the anti-marriage equality statement from Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCaster Lil
OutCaster Lil presents OutCasters' views on statement from Justices Thomas and Alito attacking marriage equality

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 08:33
  • Purchases: 1
Women Warriors: Climate Revolutionaries highlights activist Greta Thunberg
From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
Series: Women Warriors - The Voices of Change podcast series
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The September 20th 2019: Women Warriors — Voices of Change multimedia concert performed by Orchestra Moderne NYC, under the direction of Amy Anders...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 01:40
Generation Left
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Keir Milburn
When it comes to politics, age appears to be a prominent dividing line. And, a closer look at youth today shows that the young around the world are...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Green New Deal, Yellow Vests
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Activists at all levels of the climate justice movement discuss how inter-generational, cross-coalition, and global organizing is taking control of...

Bought by KDNK and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Where the Millennials Will Take Us
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Barbara J. Risman
Millennials are a diverse group. Many today are changing the boundaries of what constitutes appropriate male and female behavior. Many don’t even w...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
When Grit Isn't Enough
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Linda Nathan
There’s a long held assumption that college access is available to anyone and everyone. All they have to have is fortitude and a big dream. In othe...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 09, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Campus Confidential
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jacques Berlinerblau
In the 1970s, over half of America’s university professors were tenured or on the tenure track. Today that figure is around 25-percent and falling.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Language at the Speed of Sight
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mark Seidenberg
An international survey in 2011 found that students in Shanghai outperformed American students in every category. President Obama referred to the r...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
What's Your Kid Packing for Campus?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The NRA won the gun control debate long ago. So with the right to bear arms no matter the consequences firmly established in U.S. law and psyche o...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
What Kind of Citizen?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joel Westheimer
All schools teach citizenship. But, the question becomes, “what kind of citizens are the schools trying to shape?”

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Failing Our Youth: An Inadequate Foster Care System
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Nicole Rocke and daughter., Credit: Leticia Miranda
This show takes a look at issues within the foster care system in the U.S. from the high rate of teen pregnancy to the alarming use of psychiatric ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 2
#23 MIW Christian Calinsky - Body Piercer and Homeless Youth Advocate
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Christian Calinsky on MIWq, Credit: Oddua Productions
With Akeisha Johnson, your show host, this episode of Making it Work, Christian will share his journey from being a homeless youth to becoming a ca...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 1
Witnessing 'The Cove'
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Fall 2012
Caption: Dolphins being butchered in Taiji, Japan. , Credit: Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/taijidolphinslaughter/5304070526/in/photostream/">Elora West</a>
17-year-old Elora West is riled up when she sees "The Cove," an Oscar-winning documentary about dolphin hunting in Japan. Then she gets the chance ...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
Life in Public Housing: Perception vs. Reality
From: Youth Express
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Diamen, Rosa and Javon interview Nate Brown (Family Resources) and Jason Harris, Taymar Fields, Tramell Perry and Aaqila Youngblood (public housing...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 03:16
Fear & Learning in America
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: John Kuhn
There is a vast divide between those in the “education reform movement” and those who recognize the very real problem of inequality. School superin...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
ADHD
From: KBEM
Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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A Minneapolis high school student tells us in verse about his decision to come off his medication.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
The Tax I Pay Everyday
From: KBEM
Series: Minneapolis Freestyle
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You might say the piece is about the "dues" we pay. This rap-style piece from a high school student in Minneapolis is well-put.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 02:03
  • Purchases: 1
If You Could Be Mine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Sara Farizan
A new novel by Sara Fraizan explores the issues of gender orientation. But, what sets this work apart from its predecessors is that it’s written fo...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Sexual Cyberbullying: The Modern Day Letter A
From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: McBurney YMCA 2012
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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
Anne Elizabeth Moore reads from Hip Hop Apsara: Ghosts Past and Present
From: Radio K
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People tell a lot of ghost stories around Halloween. But for some, ghosts aren't the supernatural figures we read about in books or see in movies. ...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2012
  • Length: 05:08
StoryCorps Griot: Robert Holmes
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Robert Holmes
Robert Holmes talks about his family being among the first to integrate a neighborhood in Edison, New Jersey.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 2