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Words
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Photo by Per Ola Wiberg ~ Powi, Flickr
“My piece is merely a collection of poems I wrote. I made them as personal as possible.” What Ari Rappaport said about his YMP/SFAI Summer Intensi...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 04:10
What is Love?
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Photo by praram, Flickr
“My piece is about what kind of love there is and what love is, what mistakes I’ve done and how love is hard. It’s me expressing my feeling about w...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 1
More than an office
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
The place, the music, the memories
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
The Night Before Christmas
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
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Spinner Jackson reads us the timeless winter classic, "The Night Before Christmas", just in time for the holidays.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2011
  • Length: 03:05
Signing Off
From: Christopher Williams
Caption: Signing Off - Album Artwork
UB40 went on to become one of the world's biggest reggae acts - but their debut album "Signing Off" still stands as one of their most influential r...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2011
  • Length: 49:05
Coming of age "illegal"
From: MPR News Stations
Series: MPR News' Youth Series
Caption: Brenda, 19, walks through her Minneapolis neighborhood. She's been living as an illegal immigrant in Minnesota since she was 7 years old., Credit: MPR Photo/Jeff Thompson
When Brenda was 7, she was carried across the border from Mexico. Now 19, the Minneapolis teen wishes she could live and work legally in the countr...

Bought by WTIP, WGXC, KUNM, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, and KSFR


  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 5
I Didn't Know That (You Were a Muslim)
From: Tali Singer
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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
MN Underground Hip-Hop with Alex Aldrich
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
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Something about falling in love with music while stationed in Iraq strikes me as profound... The other day a young man named Alex Aldrich came into...

  • Added: May 21, 2010
  • Length: 14:06
Tim Kreuth Reviews Brother Ali's "Us"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
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KAXE Intern Tim Krueth (A.K.A. Timtern) reviews Us, the latest release from Minneapolis hip-hop artist Brother Ali. BrotherAli.com describes Us as,...

  • Added: May 03, 2010
  • Length: 04:46
Storefront Library
From: Mark Saldaña
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In Boston's densest neighborhood, the Chinatown Storefront Library converted a vacant commercial space into a thriving community center. And then i...

Bought by XRAY.fm and YouthCast


  • Added: Feb 17, 2010
  • Length: 13:44
  • Purchases: 2
Perceptions Shattered: African American Masculinity from Chicago Public Radio, PRX and the NBPC
From: WBEZ
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Youth voices share their perspectives on Black masculinity.

Bought by WFAE, WEAA, New Hampshire Public Radio, WYSO, WCPN and more


  • Added: Jul 23, 2008
  • Length: 52:33
  • Purchases: 19
My Brother
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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No matter how many times Allen has screwed up his brother has always stood by him. Now Allen's incarcerated at the Long Creek Youth Development Ce...

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2008
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 1
A Softer Voice
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Hillary's been playing music all her life and her gender never seemed to matter. But when she began composing things got more complicated.

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, Remix Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 6
Sex in the City and a Catholic School Girl
From: Project Stitch
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A fourteen year-old Catholic schoolgirl looks for answers about sex from a nun, a downtown clinic and a pharamacy.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Aug 27, 2007
  • Length: 05:21
  • Purchases: 1
Digital Diary: Kerrel McKay interviews patrons in Jamaican bar
From: UNICEF
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This Story is free! Youth Reporter Kerrel McKay interviews patrons in Jamaican bar about safe sex and HIV

Bought by KRCB 104.9 and AIFM


  • Added: Aug 15, 2006
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 2
Digital Diary: Berenice's Story from Ghana - Part 4
From: UNICEF
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This Story is Free! Youth Radio journalist, Berenice Akuamoah, 18, tells her story through a six-part radio diary

Bought by KWCW


  • Added: Feb 06, 2006
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 1
Confessions
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An adolescent boy in love faces the trauma of a transnational relationship.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2006
  • Length: 08:08
  • Purchases: 1
Growing Up in a Coal Community
From: Appalachian Media Institute
Caption: Natasha Watts interviewing community members., Credit: Rebecca O'Doherty, Youth Radio
Growing up in a coal community, mining is a part of your everyday life. In light of the recent SAGO mine disaster Natasha Watts reflects on what i...

Bought by WGXC, WGBH Radio Boston, WXLV-FM, The Nature Podcast, and PRX


  • Added: Jan 19, 2006
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 5
Understanding Death
From: Youth Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Youth Radio’s Kacey Ward continues to try to find ways of learning to cope with the many deaths in her family.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Mar 18, 2005
  • Length: 04:28
  • Purchases: 1
Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse
From: Sound Portraits
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LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman's exploration of the murder of Eric Morse, a five-year-old who was pushed to his death from a 14th-floor window by tw...

Bought by KUT, KUT, KUT, Remix Radio, and KUER


  • Added: Jun 09, 2004
  • Length: 40:14
  • Purchases: 5
From Goody Two Shoes to Rock Bottom
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
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Listen to George tell the story of how he went from being an innocent kid to surviving two brushes with cancer to being locked up at Long Creek You...

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 19, 2004
  • Length: 09:28
  • Purchases: 1