Radio Rootz

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  • Location: Cambridge, MA

Radio Rootz is a youth radio program in New York City. Rootz teaches classes in radio production and media literacy in New York City's public high schools and middle schools. Rootz students make hilarious, serious, thoughtful and creative pieces on subjects from Reggaeton to immigration to the Catholic church. We contribute to Free Speech Radio News, and our work airs regularly on Wakeup Call, the morning news show at WBAI 99.5 FM in New York. Radio Rootz is a project of People's Production House, New York's comprehensive media justice organization.

People who work with Radio Rootz

Kyra Joseph Radio Documentarian/Producer Brooklyn, NY
Radio Rootz Radio Rootz New York, NY
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Pieces

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What's up with banning the "n" word?

  • Added: May 15, 2008
  • Length: 00:07:04
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Every single one of the over 2000 students have to pass through metal detectors each morning.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2008
  • Length: 00:11:17
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Imagine the difficulties you'd face if you couldn't understand a word being spoken around you...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2008
  • Length: 00:12:19
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Does Love Make You Crazy?

Bought by YouthCast and Youth Media Project


  • Added: Jan 28, 2008
  • Length: 00:08:54
  • Licenses: 2
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Every year we?re bombarded by statistics

  • Added: Oct 25, 2007
  • Length: 00:06:37
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Are you tired of not having any friends to talk to

  • Added: Oct 23, 2007
  • Length: 00:01:13
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Can jobs really keep teens out of trouble - at $5.15 an hour?

  • Added: Oct 23, 2007
  • Length: 00:05:43
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Gun violence impacts most teens living in Washington, D.C.

  • Added: Oct 23, 2007
  • Length: 00:07:01
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We invite you to us on our trip to Cambodia!!!

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Oct 11, 2007
  • Length: 00:19:34
  • Licenses: 1
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Challenges faced by Undocumented South Asian Youth

Bought by WXLV-FM and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 09, 2007
  • Length: 00:10:17
  • Licenses: 2
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Radio Rootz investigate a recent sad incident that occurred in a high school in Elmhurst, Queens, where a Sikh student had his hair cut off by a Mu...

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Oct 04, 2007
  • Length: 00:14:09
  • Licenses: 1
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Immigrant Story

Bought by YouthCast, KUOW, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: May 15, 2007
  • Length: 00:08:29
  • Licenses: 3
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4 radio documentaries on a variety of topics

  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 00:22:06
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Radio Rootz Participants are and are not thankful for...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2006
  • Length: 00:04:55
Readings from Voices of a people's history of the United States by Howard Zinn

Bought by WRPI and KPFT


  • Added: Nov 15, 2006
  • Length: 00:52:01
  • Licenses: 2
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Brooklyn middle schoolers discuss immigration reform

  • Added: Nov 06, 2006
  • Length: 00:07:26
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Brooklyn middle schoolers talk shop on gossip

Bought by SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network


  • Added: Nov 06, 2006
  • Length: 00:04:01
  • Licenses: 1
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Vanguard H.S. student's express opinions related to upcoming elections.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2006
  • Length: 00:04:09
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Manhatten Comprehensive H.S students express opinions related to upcoming elections

  • Added: Nov 06, 2006
  • Length: 00:03:24
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March 10 Immigration Reform Protests Vox pop

  • Added: Nov 01, 2006
  • Length: 00:01:38