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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(Andrew Moore)

I Am African

I aspired to be white, to have the beautiful skin and to be seen as an angel because after all, there were no dark colors in heaven. From fourth to seventh grade I denied being African. I denied my mother because of her thick African accent. I denied my family for their darker skin tones. All except my older brother, letting kids believe he was my father, and I was his daughter. I thought maybe his light skinned complexion would cause kids to believe that maybe, just maybe not all Africans were dark and ugly.

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(Pierre Pouliquin)

My Identity

I feel alienated because I cannot speak Mandarin. It’s frustrating when I can’t communicate with my family in China. I often feel out of place when I can’t take part in the conversations.

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(Rhymes)

X Park Review

There is no on duty staff or security, so you don’t get barked at for not wearing a helmet or just being loud. Apart from actually skating, a lot of people go there to just chill and hangout.

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