Camp Sweeney
Building on our commitment to serve incarcerated youth, Youth Radio offers training and classes for young men, ages 14-17, at Camp Sweeney in San Leandro, California.
Each outreach team, professional staff and peer educator teaches basic radio broadcasting music mixing, and commentary writing. At the end of the eight-week session they produce a public affairs program that is aired on KPFB and Youth Radio’s web radio station.
Original Music
Youth from Camp Sweeney, a juvenile justice facility for young men ages 14-17 in San Leandro, created beats and lyrics for rap songs in an eight week music production course taught by Youth Radio staff. Hear what they created!
 Bops
Listen to Camp Sweeney students rap about their relationships with women, and how they try to treat the ladies.
Life
Hear a rap about everyday issues these young men face in their neighborhoods.
Love Ones
Listen to their flow on lost loved ones and homeboys.
A Spiritual
Hear one young man’s spit about his relationship with God, the struggles he faces to make money, and social conditions that oppress young Black men.
Hear Camp Sweeney's radio shows:
Stereotypes of California
Reflections
on September 11
Slang
Proposition
21
Incarcerated
Youth
Commentaries from Camp Sweeney:
Pow
Wow
Colorless
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