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A selection of our national reports and commentaries on NPR's news magazines such as Morning Edition and All Things Considered, including our award winning series "E-Mails from Kosovo." Youth Radio reporters for NPR follow youth culture, trends, politics, education, and personal experiences.

07/08/08 I Kissed a Girl
06/12/08 The Sports Rap Battle By Brandon McFarland
06/01/08 Cultural Competency and Nursing By Alyssa Wagner
05/18/08 One Monday By Rekia Jibrin
05/11/08 Teacher and Mom By Alix Black
05/09/08 Poverty in the Mountains By Machlyn Blair
05/04/08 Race and Results By Chela Delgado
04/20/08 Busted Enthusiasm By Meghan Scheidemann
04/10/08 Guerra Everywhere By Evelyn Martinez
03/15/08 Pope Benedict's Visit By Leslye Salinas and Jazmin Escobar
03/12/08 Teens React to CDC Study By Asha Richardson, Brandon Robbins and Susana Vuong
03/07/08 The Wire By Orlando Campbell
02/26/08 The Game is the New Music Studio By Brandon McFarland
02/14/08 The Savidge World of Sports By Nico Savidge
02/07/08 New York Youth Voter Essay By Donald Moore
02/03/08 Young Voters on Their First Time By Youth Radio Los Angeles
01/31/08 Super Tuesday Youth Essays By Miriam Archibong (Georgia), Martin Macias (Illinois) and Tonei Glavinic (Alaska)
01/10/08 Rising Above Low Expectations Featuring Ayesha Walker
01/02/08 Vanity Pounds By Quincy Mosby

12/21/07 Secret Dating By Consuelo Cisneros
12/14/07 Mitchell Report Hear what Youth Radio's:
Savidge, Mike Ginsburg, and Koran Jenkins have to say.

11/12/07 Hood Sweet Hood By Ayesha Walker
10/26/07 Genarlow Wilson and Age of Consent By Alix Black
10/17/07 School Shooting
10/14/07 Moving Out By Mike Ginsburg
10/07/07 Human Costs of Prescription Drugs By Natasha Watts
09/14/07 Medicine Grows on Trees! By Antony Jauregui
08/09/07 Chauncey Bailey Remembrance By King Anyi Howell
07/29/07 Private College By Bianca Butler
07/09/07 Teens Talk Sex Ed. By Erica Granados
06/18/07 The N-Word Discussion By Alana Germany
06/15/07 The Cambodian-American Cheerleader By Chandra Touch
05/16/07 MySpace Advertisements By Jordan Monroe
04/17/07 Smoking Advertisements By Sarah Smith
04/15/07 Becoming AWARE By Clare Robbins
03/29/07 Killing Off Cancer By Alana Germany
03/08/07 The End of Mixtapes? By King Anyi Howell
03/08/07 The Talk By Johanna Greenberg
01/24/07 State of the Union: Reactions from New Orleans By Brett Myers
01/12/07 Oakland's New Mayor By Anyi Howell
01/05/07 Black Is By Karissa Harden

12/25/06 No Christmas By Brittany Lamb
12/01/06 Energy Brat By Antony Jaureguí
11/30/06 N-Bomb By Pendarvis Harshaw
11/16/06 Healthy Food By Karime Blanco
11/15/06 Stay In The Booth By Quincy Mosby
11/01/06 Casting My Vote By Autumn Campbell
09/15/06 She's Gone By Quincy Mosby
09/14/06 Promiscuous By Youth Radio
09/08/06 First Time on a Farm By Jennifer Obakhume
08/20/06 Church Hiatus By Brandon McFarland
08/15/06 The Nappy Chronicles By Bianca Butler
08/13/06 Return of the "Girly Girl"? By Alix Black
08/02/06 Changing the Channel By Sandra Quel
07/31/06 Crazy By King Anyi Howell
07/24/06 Reading My LiveJournal By Bly Lauritano-Werner
07/18/06 Babies and Bullets By Pendarvis Harshaw
07/14/06 DNA of the Black Experience By Anyi Howell
07/03/06 Singing the Blues By Jordan Monroe
06/18/06 My Dad On TV By Jordan Monroe
06/04/06 Leaving the Mountains By Machlyn Blair
05/25/06 Her Battle, My Battle, with AIDS By Quincy Mosby
05/19/06 Children as Medical Interpreters By Anthony Jauregui
04/28/06 Paying the Price for Protest By Jennifer Obakhume
04/10/06 Female Genital Mutilation By Ayan Hussein
04/04/06 Hyphy Nation -- The Bay Area's Movement By Tapan Munshi
02/23/06 Family Ties and Iraq By Richard Denny
02/05/06 Savoring the Weekends By David Barber-Callaghan
01/17/06 Adjusting to University Life By Nishat Kurwa
01/16/06 Race Relations and MLK By Jennifer Obakhume
01/10/06 Growing Up in a Coal Community By Natasha Watts
01/03/06 A Scourge in the ’Hood By Anyi Howell

12/13/05 Headed Back By Daniel Price
12/09/05 Growing Up Colored in South Africa By Fadia Williams
11/23/05 Living with PTSD By Sophie Simon-Ortiz
11/07/05 Black Market for Junk Food By Jennifer Obakhume
10/30/05 Best Buddies By Lauryn Silverman
10/17/05 Millions More Movement By Anyi Howell
10/08/05 Memories of Dad and Home By Calen Robertson
08/23/05 College and Drinking By Nora Harrington
08/18/05 Whoopins By Brandon McFarland
06/28/05 Youth Radio on Talk of the Nation! By Jennifer Obakhume & Miriam Archibong
06/07/05 Drop Out Purgatory By Quincy Mosby
06/04/05 A Place to Call Home By Jorge Nuñez
06/03/05 One School, Two Environments By Ricky Zhang
05/27/05 College and Money By Ricky Zhang
05/24/05 Young Mothers By Cassandra Gonzalez
05/18/05 The Turf, The Village By Drew Harshaw
05/16/05 Hunger's Diary By Lauryn Silverman
04/16/05 An Indian Wedding By Nishat Kurwa
04/05/05 Love and War By Christian and Mary McArthur
04/05/05 Coming Back Home By Kevin Walters
02/17/05 To Sag Or Not to Sag? By Brandon McFarland
02/08/05 Deported to Tijuana By Jorge Nunez
01/27/05 U.S. Soldiers' Perspectives on Iraq Elections By Kevin Walters & Nicole Goodwin
01/19/05 A Map of My Mind By Belia Mayeno

11/27/04 Military Voices By Irie Reyes
11/06/04 The Youth Vote By Belia Mayeno
09/14/04 Star Search Politics By Sophie Simon Ortiz
09/03/04 Young Reporter in the City By DeSean Robinson-Walker
09/02/04 California Delegate: Nick Romero By Nick Romero
09/02/04 Conservative Punks for Bush By Enrique Rivera
08/30/04 Young Delegate: Nick Romero By Nick Romero
08/24/04 Star Search Politics By Sophie Simon Ortiz
07/29/04 Mistral Party By Luis Sierra
07/28/04 Young Latino Delegate By Luis Sierra
07/27/04 Emily Liner: Young Delegate By Emily Liner
07/13/04 Daddy’s Home By Cassandra Gonzalez
06/26/04 Raised by a Single Mother By Russell Owens
06/19/04 Fathers at Work By Sophie Simon-Ortiz
06/17/04 Haitian American Poetry By Sherely Luc & Vanessa Ramier
05/24/04 A Border Story by Elena Alvarez & Viry Martino Ruiz
05/17/04 Soldiers React to the Prison Abuse by Belia Mayeno
05/11/04 Havana Hoops by Nick Miroff
04/17/04 My Cuban Quinceanera by Gabriela Blain Pineiro
04/08/04 India's Vision of Beauty by Nishat Kurwa
04/06/04 The Story of a Wounded Soldier by Chris Kotch
03/22/04 Roya's Return to Afghanistan by Roya Aziz
03/13/04 Teen Voices on Lowering the Voting Age
02/17/04 A Soldier's Reflection by Gaurav Taneja
01/30/04 Abstinence by Sanovia Jackson
01/01/04 Slang: What's In and Out for 2004 by Sanovia Jackson

12/28/03 Kabul Girls Back in School by Nishat Kurwa
12/24/03 Milkshake by Sanovia Jackson and Nora Harrington
09/29/03 AP Classes and Minorities by Ashley Hayes
09/05/03 Foreign Born President by Cesar Z
08/12/03 Hip Hop and Teenagers by DeSean Robinson Walker
08/08/03 Who Represents Me by Nzinga Moore
06/24/03 A Teacher's Perspective by Dan Olmos
06/14/03 Absent Fathers by Belia Mayeno Choy, Shane O'Cadja Nash, Edward John Quilice
06/13/03 Better Luck Tomorrow by Nora Harrington
06/09/03 Pink Slips by Emily Greenwell
05/24/03 American Idol by Ursula Mehl, Greg Willis, DeSean Robinson Walker, and Krystle Martin
05/21/03 Teen Pregnancy by Gaby Arvizu
04/17/03 Faking Addressess by Sophie Simon-Ortiz
02/25/03 Why We Love Bass by Andrew Howe
02/19/03 Remote Control by Alicia Zakon

12/07/02 Oakland Violence Scenes by Gerald Ward II, Bianca and Bridget Yarborough, Ise Lyfe
11/14/02 Shoplifting by Nora Harrington
11/08/02 Review of 8 Mile on the Tavis Smiley Show by Gerald Ward II
10/24/02 Jehovah’s Witness by Gabriela Jacobo
06/01/02 Princess Project by Belia Mayeno-Choy
05/30/02 College Rejection by Latifah Muhammad
04/24/02 Voices From the Middle East by Sara Dansker and Dina Huzary
04/02/02 Voices From the Middle East by Ala Uwainah and Liat Margalit
03/02/02 Alternative Comics by Victor Vazquez (with additional reporting by Margarita Rossi)
02/27/02 Teen Guide to the Grammys by Leah Chapple-Stingley
02/12/02 Teen Advice by Thessaly LaForce
01/18/02 Terrorist Slang by Reyna Gillead

12/28/01 Cheap is Hip by Meena Hartenstein
11/08/01 ROTC by Bobby Thompson
11/06/01 Medical Trials by Leah Chapple Stingley
09/07/01 Vicodin by Meena Hartenstein
08/20/01 An Overachiever's Summer by Thessaly La Force
08/13/01 Dot-com to Dot-org by Megan Williams
06/06/01 Graduation — vox of UC graduates and their plans for the future
06/01/01 Sat Diaries by Marlene Williams
05/30/01 Testing: Students Opting Out by Nzinga Moore
03/20/01 Teen Secrets by Thessaly La Force
03/13/01 Testing: Two Perspectives by Tania Garcia and Christina Appleberry
02/23/01 Cheerleading by Belia Mayeno-Choy
02/20/01 Slim Shady — vox about the Grammys and Eminem
01/15/01 Savage Inequalities by Marc Bamuthi Joseph
01/06/01 Baby Talk by Jacinda Abcarian

Thessaly La Force's Teen Secrets made NPR's top ten commentaries for the year!