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As part of the Youth Spin Summer Workshop series the teens of Youth Spin looked deep into the inner workings of four youth related organizations in...
- Added: Sep 29, 2012
- Length: 04:39
A man with no hands is accused of throwing a volleyball-sized boulder through a window at a restaurant
- Added: Jul 03, 2012
- Length: 01:03
This week on Culture Queue, we head into summer and bring along some scintillating stories. We start off with a report from Producer Noel Clark on ...
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- Added: Jun 15, 2012
- Length: 27:28
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- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 31:45
The emergency room at Indianapolis' Wishard Hospital sees its fair share of gun shot victims, both teenagers and adults. Y-Press visited Wishard to...
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 04:18
Poet Miona Short, 16, is a junior at Walter Payton College Prep High School, but she was representing YOUmedia Chicago in this year's competition. ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 02:57
The problem of gun violence among teens and young adults isn’t exclusive to Indianapolis. But it turns out that the way the city is tackling the pr...
- Added: Mar 16, 2012
- Length: 03:42
Priya Mirmira, age 15, spoke with 18-year-old inmates who were serving time for gun charges. She learned about their attitudes toward guns, how the...
- Added: Mar 16, 2012
- Length: 03:38
In a 2009 survey by the CDC, nearly 1500 Indiana high school students said they had carried a gun for at least one day during the previous 30 days....
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- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 03:38
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In the last decade in Indiana, about 130 murders were committed by teens, and 79 percent of those involved a firearm. After a Y-Presser lost her co...
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- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 03:37
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- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 03:35
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
The Beach Boys-esque musical outro (written and performed by Zap) to Youth Spin's weekly segment, Weird News With Perry.
- Added: Dec 29, 2011
- Length: :16
The unique introduction (featuring Mady Berry) to Youth Spin's weekly segment, Weird News With Perry.
- Added: Dec 29, 2011
- Length: :16
Cristel Martinez came to America from the Dominican Republic with a dream to become a music producer. But the only music she hears in school, says ...
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- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 05:02
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Twenty-year-old Thien To first learned about cyberbullying in her native Vietnam. The South Philadelphia High junior has since learned about cyberb...
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- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 05:48
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Shayla Torres dealt with a lot of violence in her last school, where she was a peer mediator. Here, the 17-year-old junior recalls one especially c...
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 02:51
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For Luis Lopez, violence arrived unexpectedly at his own front door. The seventeen-year-old sophomore starts his story in a classroom.
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 01:55
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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
Quite the pioneer!
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- Added: May 09, 2011
- Length: 04:52
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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
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Failing neighborhood schools often have neither the support nor resources to turn themselves around. Jesse Sharkey, Vice President of Chicago Teach...
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- Added: Apr 16, 2011
- Length: 03:13
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