YR Raw

YRaw offers the inside (and lightly edited) scoop from Youth Radio’s training programs. In the introductory training, high school students produce a weekly radio show on YR Raw. Tune in Friday nights at 6:15pm by clicking the “Listen Live” button below. In the intermediate training, students specialize in one media concentration (journalism, music or multimedia). Here is where you can check-out all of the work they produce!

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Do This for You

I then tried golf, and was known by faculty and students for being the only black girl on the team. I will admit, I definitely was the worst player because it was my first time playing, but I was determined to learn.

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What happened on the evening of June 17th , Im sure startled a great amount of people around the world. I mean any time a large group of people are massacred many national and local eyes are opened but when the victims are african american, the people who actually notice these issues the most are the Black communities in America.

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Fast Food

A lot of people like fast food, it taste so good that nobody really pays attention to what’s in it. Alot of teen’s eat fast food because it’s cheap and addictive. According to the Daily News the average american spends more than$1,200 on fast food every year

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The Death Of My Uncle

My uncle, O’Shaine, was 26 when he was murdered. He and two of his friends drove to San Francisco on the night of October 7th hoping to engage in a good time.

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(Pierre Pouliquin)

How My Parents Have Influenced Me

Parents are important to any child’s development. Having been adopted from China, I wonder how the person I am has been shaped by my parents and my own ethnicity. While my culture shapes how I see the world, my parents also influence me everyday.

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