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Seventeen-year-old Elisa Morris-Jackson explains what it’s like to live with GPS monitoring

Intereview with Alameda County Commissioner Mark Kliszewski

Interview with Lauren-Brooke Eisen, Counsel in the Brennan Center's Justice Program at NYU

Interview with Debra Mendoza, former Alameda County Juvenile Probation Officer

Youth Radio visits a school in Sacramento, California that has switched from suspending kids for bad behavior -- to rewarding them for good behavior. Listen to a snapshot of how positive discipline works in this elementary school. 

What Does Positive Discipline Look Like?

Bom Radio Spring 2014 Show

Crowdfunding for College

Youth Radio's Bianca Brooks reconsiders her love of inexpensive fashionable clothes after a visit to a garment factory in Bangladesh.

Rethinking - Fast - Fashion

School lunchrooms are sometimes called the biggest restaurant chain in America, and in districts across the country, there’s a push for healthier, locally sourced ingredients. Given the fact that childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years, revamping school lunch menus sounds like a really good idea. But in practice, improving school lunch is harder than it sounds.

Making Lunch Local for California Kids

Every year, San Francisco's Youth Speaks holds a special event on MLK Day: a showcase where the organization's poets perform original works inspired by the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

Youth Speaks poet Sara O'Neill will be performing in this year's event on Monday at the Nourse Auditorium.

A preview of her poem, in this story from Youth Radio.

Young Poets Connect With Dr. King's Vision Half A Century Later

Youth Radio Podcast: Are Teenagers Today More Narcissistic?

Animal - a poem by Baltimore's youth poet laureate Derick Ebert







Animal: A Poem By Derick Ebert

Reach - a poem by Baltimore's youth poet laureate Derick Ebert

Reach: A Poem By Derick Ebert

I'm 18 years old. And all over the country, young people like me are having strong reactions to the youth movement in Baltimore. With each young man killed by police, my peers and I feel anger and frustration, but that’s not all.

Baltimore: A Turning Point In This Generation’s Civil Rights Movement?

The highest minimum wage in the nation went into effect in Oakland, California this year.

Oakland Kids Get A Raise From New Minimum Wage

 Elisha Black is 17 years old and grew up in Charleston. He says, it’s time for the city to step up to a new role in order to move past the tragedy


Charleston Teen Reflects On Racism In The Spotlight

As Atlantans follow the ongoing trial of Atlanta Public School teachers and administrators charged with cheating, students in the APS district are taking a special interest in the proceedings. Youth Radio Atlanta’s Jenn Steckl offers her thoughts  on how the cheating and its aftermath hurt every student in the system.  

Cheating Teachers (Atlanta Public School Scandal)

While some kids go to summer camp, others opt for a virtual camp. It uses the Minecraft video game to teach engineering skills, basic coding and how to be a good citizen in the digital landscape.

Virtual Summer Camp Uses 'Minecraft' To Teach Digital Skills

Youth Radio reporter Pendarvis Harshaw sits down with "techquity" leaders and investors Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein to discuss the future of tech in Oakland and beyond

Youth Radio Interview with Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein

Listen to the extended interview with Christopher Watson, who shares his account of his encounters with sexually exploited minors and how allegations of sexual exploitation aren’t limited to just police officer



Extended Interview With Advocate Of Sexually Exploited Minors

As part of the music and arts scene in Oakland, we are heartbroken about the lives lost in last weekend’s fire. Many of the people who came for the concert that night were up-and-coming electronic music artists. Some of them are still unaccounted for. Some of them are gone.

Johnny Igaz, Cash Askew, Travis Hough and Chelsea Faith, are electronic music artists in Oakland. Cash Askew is confirmed dead. The others are among the unconfirmed. We've made a mini mix of some of their music. Listen here:

Listen To The Music Made By The Ghost Ship Victims

President Eisenhower responds to the situation in Little Rock

The history of integration leading up to Little Rock

Chant Used to deter Little Rock Nine

Interview of a man in Little Rock

Phyllis Brown's accounts of the Little Rock Nine

Penny Fox recalls her memory of the Little Rock Nine

Audio Diary: Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Ariana Ortega recorded herself on the first day of classes.

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