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When most people are on their way to sleep, San Francisco’s Homeless Outreach Team, or SF HOT, is just beginning its graveyard shift.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 07:34
- Purchases: 1
Nearly a dozen teenagers are scattered in small groups across a large classroom at Downtown High School in San Francisco. Some strum on guitars. Ot...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 09:28
- Purchases: 1
The 2014 Kids County data book was released this month – evaluating the wellbeing of children in each state. Today, WFHB news director alycin beket...
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 08:23
My Choice My Voice teen Nicholas Ramsey interviews playwright Parnell Herbert about his work advocating for the Angola 3 and fighting for human rig...
- Added: Jul 12, 2013
- Length: 08:32
Huge decisions are being made everyday under our noses without us being aware. This includes the student assignment for elementary and middle schoo...
- Added: Jul 11, 2013
- Length: 03:42
A $25 million federal grant has been awarded to improve math achievement in low-income middle schools across the nation. Ground zero for the progra...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 1
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
An hour-long radio documentary examining sexual assault on high school-aged girls in Indiana, featuring stories of sexual assault survivors, as wel...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 53:59
Weird News Perry is a weekly segment about weird news
- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: :16
HENDERSON, Texas - An east Texas high school senior who reported being raped on campus by a fellow student in 2010 was wronged when she was punishe...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 02:43
Joe Hunter is a former gang member from the mean streets of Detroit. He's created a non-profit to support his efforts to stop gang violence in Mem...
- Added: May 17, 2012
- Length: 06:20
In this weeks edition of Weird News With Perry, Perry tells us about the Dunkin Duo, a pair of donut shop burglars recently apprehended.
- Added: Dec 29, 2011
- Length: :45
In this week's edition of Weird News With Perry, Perry tells us the story of Jesse Ventura, a man with a titanium hip and a bone to pick with the T...
- Added: Dec 29, 2011
- Length: :51
Many immigrants come to America looking for a better life with more opportunities. They come with widely varying levels of education and resources....
- Added: May 18, 2011
- Length: 02:54
Just over 1000 Burmese refugees settled in Indianapolis last year and that number is projected to grow this year.
Carleen Miller, executive direct...
- Added: May 18, 2011
- Length: 03:10
Census figures indicate that Indianapolis’ population has grown 5 percent over the last decade, which is large part (83.4% of which) is due to the ...
- Added: May 18, 2011
- Length: 03:03
When Africans want to escape political persecution, they often come seeking asylum in the U.S. But getting here often involves being smuggled from...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Apr 26, 2011
- Length: 01:50:25
- Purchases: 1
Akinori Adachi is an exchange student from Japan who is currently studying in Maine. He says that before the nuclear crisis in Fukushima caused by ...
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 01:19
- Purchases: 2
Failing neighborhood schools often have neither the support nor resources to turn themselves around. Jesse Sharkey, Vice President of Chicago Teach...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 16, 2011
- Length: 03:13
- Purchases: 1
For most women, the way their pregnancy, labor, and recuperation is handled by the correctional system has a lot to be desired. But there are some...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW
- Added: Mar 30, 2011
- Length: 09:35
- Purchases: 2
Teenagers at City High School in downtown Tucson share their reactions to the tragic shooting on January 8, 2011. (Long and short version)
- Added: Jan 15, 2011
- Length: 08:00
An Annenberg School for Communications 2006 study revealed that of 5,000 movie and TV speaking parts 71 percent were males and only 21 percent were...
Bought by WXDU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
- Added: Jan 04, 2011
- Length: 02:51
- Purchases: 3
Suicides among LGBT youth have been a major topic in the news the last few months.
Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
- Added: Nov 30, 2010
- Length: 05:10
- Purchases: 1
Obesity, STDs, tobacco, drug and alcohol use are some of the major health concerns Indiana youth. And if kids need care in this difficult economy, ...
Bought by YouthCast
- Added: May 05, 2010
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 11, 2009
- Length: 23:12
