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The Tax I Pay Every Day - Xavier

From: KBEM
Series: Minneapolis Freestyle

According to this high school poet, there should be more attention paid to educating youth.

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Feb 19, 2014
Length: 01:22
Purchases: 1

The Tax I Pay Everyday

From: KBEM
Series: Minneapolis Freestyle

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

Gem - Smartness

From: KBEM
Series: Minneapolis Freestyle

A Minneapolis high school student reflects in verse on what it means to be smart.

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Feb 19, 2014
Length: 01:41
Purchases: 1

Trip to Minnehaha Falls.

From: KBEM
Series: Minneapolis Freestyle

Educators and middle school students take a poetic trip from a middle school to Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis.

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Feb 19, 2014
Length: 08:24
Purchases: 1

I Am From, Gabriel Spinks

From: KBEM
Series: Minneapolis Freestyle

Gabriel delivers a convincing poem relating to his Dakota ancestry.

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Feb 19, 2014
Length: 01:36
Purchases: 1

The Ghosts of Time

From: KBEM
Series: Minneapolis Freestyle

A young Minneapolis poet writes of the ghosts who help you view your past and future.

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Feb 18, 2014
Length: 01:20
Purchases: 1

I Am From

From: KBEM
Series: Minneapolis Freestyle

With a lot of tasty food metaphors, Glenn, a Minneapolis meddle school student, tells us where he is from.

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Feb 18, 2014
Length: 02:06
Purchases: 1

Halloween :The North Side Witch Hunt

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: PM was one of the North Side witches., Credit: Catherine McGuigan

Witch-hunts are curious phenomena, and thoroughly reactionary in nature. They generally begin with an inexplicable event of one kind or other—cows ...

Added: Aug 30, 2013
Length: 26:55

Mindful Kids

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

For kids in school, Spring Break is offering a much needed respite from the pressures of being a student. Two psychologists are working with a tech...

Bought by KENW and KFAI Minneapolis

Added: Mar 22, 2013
Length: 02:38
Purchases: 2

Sexual Cyberbullying: The Modern Day Letter A

From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: McBurney YMCA 2012

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

Combatting Moroccan Youth Unemployment

From: War News Radio

The majority of the Middle East currently faces a youth bulge, which many policy analysts have deemed as the single most important development prob...

Added: Nov 01, 2012
Length: 07:18

Creating Nonviolent Schools and Communities: Highlights from MLK Day

From: On Blast

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

Youth bring fresh eyes to Alcatraz

From: KALW

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

Is Foster Care a Good Thing? One Teenager's Opinion

From: KBEM
Series: What's Real

After going through foster care, this Minneapolis High School kids wonders about the good accomplished by foster care.

Added: Aug 24, 2011
Length: 01:00

Benefits of Being Mixed Race

From: KBEM
Series: What's Real

Caption: Darshon Moore, Credit: Philip Nusbaum

Darshon Moore speaks from experience of having parents representing differing cultural backgrounds

Added: Aug 24, 2011
Length: 01:00

Music at Different Ages

From: KBEM
Series: What's Real

Caption: Danee Voss, Credit: Philip Nusbaum

Danee Voss, a student at Susan B Anthony middle School in Minneapolis talked to her mother about the function of music at different ages. The resul...

Added: May 14, 2011
Length: 01:00

How to Make Sure Kids Get Enough Sleep

From: KBEM
Series: What's Real

Caption: Avinash Patel, Credit: Phil Nusbaum

Many young students are not able to get the sleep they need each night. Avinash Patel, a student at Susan B Anthony middle School in Minneapolis ha...

Added: May 14, 2011
Length: 01:00

Scars from Bullying

From: KBEM
Series: What's Real

Grace Wenner, student at Susan B. Anthony Middle School (Minneapolis) tells us that the emotional scars from verbal bullying are worse than the phy...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Apr 24, 2011
Length: 01:00
Purchases: 1

Walking Home in Winter

From: KBEM
Series: What's Real

In this poem, a Minneapolis high school student finds a lot of value in walks home when it is cold outside.

Bought by WTIP

Added: Jan 29, 2011
Length: 01:00
Purchases: 1

Millennials Face a Tough Job Market

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Reporter Rina Palta takes a hard look at how the toughest job market in decades will shape this recession generation.

Bought by WXVU 89.1 FM Villanova

Added: Nov 16, 2010
Length: 12:48
Purchases: 1

I Didn't Know That (You Were a Muslim)

From: Tali Singer

A portrait of how a recent college graduate came to Islam, and the story of what happened when her parents found out she'd converted. This piece wa...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WTIP, KSFR, YouthCast, KUOW and more

Added: Aug 27, 2010
Length: 02:55
Purchases: 6

Learn how to learn

From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network

Caption: Gutzmann kids at the radijojo offices

Ever had trouble listening? ever had trouble concentrating? Yes sometimes we all have such problems. But some have it worst than others, some even...

Added: Oct 28, 2009
Length: 30:01

Should I Stay or Should I Go (To the Prom)

From: Blunt Youth Radio Project

It's considered by many to be a rite of passage, but Blunt reporter David Barber-Callaghan isn't sure whether he wants to go to his senior prom. In...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and YouthCast

Added: May 15, 2008
Length: 05:19
Purchases: 3

Dark Side of Teenage Popularity

From: With Good Reason

Explores the messages to teens that to be popular you must buy the best in brand-names and outshine your peers in all ways, including destructive b...

Bought by WMPG