Youth Radio
"When I started to write about myself as far as like my identity of being a queer male of color from East Oakland, that was terrifying...It becomes that you realize you have a responsibility, something that started off as just me needing to express myself because I didn’t have nobody to talk to or I didn’t think anyone would listen to me, becomes other people need to hear this because I know there's someone else from where I'm from or from a similar place. This can change something for them."
- Joshua Merchant, Off/Page Project Fellow, poet, and activist
About
Youth Radio is an award-winning media production company based in Oakland, CA. Its mission is to train diverse youth in media production skills and give them a platform from which to process their experiences and change existing media narratives. Youth Radio contributors produce content around a wide range of issues through journalistic and creative media. It serves as NPR's Youth Desk and also allows young people to work with professional media producers.
Check out the Youth Radio Newsroom for content and coverage on recent issues and stories. Find them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter for updates.
Check out the Youth Radio Newsroom for content and coverage on recent issues and stories. Find them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter for updates.
Contributed by Samantha Close on 5/10/14