Teach YR Curriculum

This month's curriculum focuses on a commentary from Youth Radio LA's Evelyn Martinez. She explores how her mother's memories of guerillas in El Salvador intersect with her own reality of night time gunshots, helicopters, and sirens at home in East Los Angeles. Here's a series of standards-aligned lesson ideas inspired by Evelyn's story.

Race and Results

While Congress focuses on the economy and the Presidential election, efforts have stalled to reauthorize the nation’s keystone education act, No Child Left Behind. The act was just a few years old when Youth Radio’s Chela Delgado took a job teaching humanities at a Philadelphia high school. She thought she knew exactly where she stood on all the testing she had to administer, until she started listening to some of her classroom parents. (May 4th on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday)

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Roach Report:
Rappers Influence On The Election

"Now more than ever, while history is in the making, we need these artists to show they care and stress how important the voting process is to the many young people who look up to them."

-Orlando Campbell, aka Roach Gigz

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May Day Coverage, Collected

On May 1st thousands mobilized in Los Angles as part of what is becoming a yearly tradition. Activist and workers joined forces to turn the spotlight on worker's and immigrant rights. Youth Radio LA took to the field and has archived their reporting online.

They captured scenes like this:

"According to Youth Radio producer Clare Robbins, some three thousand American Apparel employees are marching at Pershing Square near the Los Angeles Public Library where police are running in circles and looking generally confused about what their next move should be."

Check out all of Youth Radio LA's coverage, including a special "Deconstructed" report that shows how they pulled it off!

Live From Downtown

LAPD- Trying To Change A Negative Image

Behind The Scenes: New Tech


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Roach Report:
Waitin' On Weezy

"The self-proclaimed best rapper alive is in a zone, on his own island with a studio and all the drugs he needs. He makes song after song after song, and if a whole CD gets leaked, oh well, he has hundreds more songs to choose from. "

-Orlando Campbell, aka Roach Gigz

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Forbidden Fruit

For many parents, bringing up the subject of alcohol is no easy matter. Youth Radio’s Caitlin Grey’s dad adopted a new (and somewhat unorthodox) approach to introducing his 16-year-old daughter to alcohol. (May 4th on KCBS)

College Dropout

State budget cuts have forced many Bay Area students to pay more for college. Youth Radio’s Denise Tejada came to the United States 12 years ago in search of a progressive education, but now is questioning the “American dream.” (April 30th on KQED)

YR Wins Gracie Awards

New York, NY –The American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) has announced Youth Radio as the winner of two Gracie Allen Awards®.