Emmanuel McNeil: UnMonumental

When A Car Ride Led To Friendship

“If you grew up struggling, then you my audience,” says Jahi Salaam, an 18-year-old rapper and a poet. Jahi is from New Orleans. His first name, Jahi, means dignity in Swahili. His last name means peace. When Jahi talks about poverty, school, and prison, he says: they’re all intertwined.

From Unprisoned: Stories from the System, Eve Abrams, and WWNO: http://wwno.org/post/jahi-salaam-young-new-orleans-poet-raps-about-prison-school-and-poverty

Unprisoned: Jahi Salaam, A Young New Orleans Poet, Raps About Prison, School And Poverty

What do you do when a member of your family is locked up for a crime you are sure he didn’t commit? Sheila Phipps paints.

From Unprisoned, Eve Abrams, and WWNO: http://wwno.org/post/louisiana-mother-waits-and-paints-and-strives-free-her-son

Unprisoned: This Louisiana mother waits, and paints, and strives to free her son

Dawonta White, along with a dozen other boys, leaves his 9th Ward charter school three times a week to walk a block and half to Dancing Grounds. Their classroom there looks exactly how you’d picture a dance studio: parallel bar, wood floors, a wall of mirrors. The boys almost always start class in a circle, where they talk about what’s going on in their lives. Their teacher, Randall Rosenberg, wants his students to have a voice, to make decisions for themselves, together. 


From Unprisoned, Eve Abrams, and WWNO: http://wwno.org/post/these-young-new-orleans-dancers-want-police-know-they-are-not-threat

Unprisoned: These young New Orleans dancers want the police to know they are not a threat

Eddie started working at Garcia Cleaners when he was 10, picking up cigarette butts in the parking lot for $4 a week. He tried to get out of the dry-cleaning business when he went to college, but it just pulled him back in.

“It’s like the Godfather, the mafia. Just when I think I'm out, they bring me back in.”

https://radio.azpm.org/p/dimelo/2016/3/21/84290-garcia-cleaners-loads-of-history-after-107-years/

Dímelo: Stories of the Southwest: Garcia Cleaners: 'Loads' of History After 107 Years

Colleen Cruze Bhatti grew up serving customers at her family's farmer's market stall. Now she runs Cruze Farm, in East Knox County, milking cows and making milk, ice cream and buttermilk every day with her husband, parents, and a small crew of "Farm Girls." With sustainable techniques and social media savvy, Colleen is carrying on a multigenerational family tradition on her land, which she hopes will remain a farm forever.

Colleen Cruze Bhatti from Cruze Farm- TruckBeat

Peter Atchak- Frontier of Change

Wotko- Invisible Nations

"What do you do when a member of your family is locked up for a crime you are sure he didn’t commit? Sheila Phipps paints."

More: http://wwno.org/post/louisiana-mother-waits-and-paints-and-strives-free-her-son

Praying leads to painting

Roberto Nava speaks about his experience as a Mexican immigrant working as an auto mechanic in Durham at a Storymakers story circle. More: http://storymakersdurham.org/

Roberto Nava's experience working as a mechanic and Mexican immigrant in Durham

More: http://weaa.org/post/episode-two-eddie-afro

"It feels really good to work for The AFRO, and be part of the legacy"

More: https://radio.azpm.org/p/dimelo/2016/2/12/81923-she-cant-vote-but-this-years-election-helped-tucsonan-find-a-voice/

"I always knew I loved to speak, but I never knew that others liked to listen to me.”

AUDIO 1 - Phoner Example

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