Proud to be From Oakland
Oakland has potential, and people don’t even bother thinking of it like that.
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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Achievement Gap
I’ve heard from the students themselves reasons as to why learning is difficult for them to engage in from the students themselves and one reason is that teachers don’t care whether they pass their class or not. Many of these students believe that it’s a teachers negative attitude and stereotypic judgment that’s denying them the motivation to learn, attend class or even apply any effort into their schoolwork.
Bullying
I gave bullies the power to make me feel that way. I finally just stopped caring about what they said and they gave up bullying me.
Racism Still Alive
Racism has been around for centuries now. It goes as far back as the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In the sixteenth century Spain when Jews who had converted to Christianity and their descendants became victim of a pattern of discrimination and exclusion.
Free Flow Radio: Episode 6
Free Flow Radio rocked tonight when DJ Jess & DJ Jaalah played their music and rocked out! We bring topics on…
The Ability of Chromesthesia
There are interesting concepts found in particular humans where their senses actually work together and actually blend and intertwine their capabilities given to them.
My Identity As An Afro-Latina
When I was younger I didn’t see race, ethnicity, segregation, or stereotypes. I was educated about my cultural background but I wasn’t aware of how it would affect me in the future.
What Is Groove?
I learned that groove is being able to work with anything and everything around you.
My Ripstik
Unlike normal skateboards that go backward when you are going up a hill, a Ripstik can go uphill if you have the leg power to push yourself up.