Elders from Champaign, Illinois' Black community share their stories of achievement and struggle with middle school girls from Franklin Middle School. These same students then reflect on their school experiences.
Featuring Nathaniel Banks, Erma Bridgewater, Catherine Hogue, John Lee Jonhson, Martel Miller, Nina Patterson, Hattie Paulk, Ivon Ridgeway, Kathleen Slates, Hester Suggs, Fannie Taylor and Arnold Yarber.
The heart of Inspiration Radio: Relationships That Matter to Youth is a conversation between Youth Media Workshop participants and someone important to them.
What's one way to get teens into the wilderness? Immerse them in a state park for a two-day once-in-a-lifetime experience. Assist them in making public service announcements for their friends. Broadcast those public service announcements on television between episodes of The National Parks: America's Best Idea.That's what Illinois Public Media did in 2009!
800 Miles from Ground Zero: 9/11's Impact on Central Illinois is a four-part podcast series that documents how people currently living in the Champaign-Urbana (CU), IL area experienced September 11, 2001. Uni High School students collected perspectives from community members who lived in CU, New York, and Washington on 9/11/01, members of the local Muslim community, veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, university experts and anti-war activists to uncover how 9/11 influenced our understanding of U.S. foreign policy, our local efforts at “homeland security,” and how those efforts both divided and brought a nation together.
This podcast series gives a voice to individuals in the Champaign-Urbana community who are working to prevent gun violence. Through the perspective of our interviewees, we learn about efforts to combat the rising number of gun shootings occurring in Champaign County. This project hopes to bring light on how gun violence affects our community and provides a space for discussion on how firearms can function more safely as a part of our society.
This podcast series is a part of Uni High School's Oral History Project, featuring interviews conducted in 2019 by Uni's class of 2023, and features interviews with people on all sides of the gun debate.
More Than a Bus Ride: Desegregating Champaign Schools examines the process and implications of the 1968 plan that desegregated public schools in Champaign, Illinois.
War. Poverty. Politics. Economic and educational opportunities. These are some of the reasons people from around the world have come to central Illinois as asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants. Hear their stories of overcoming and persevering in Immigrants' Journeys: Challenges and Opportunities in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois a new documentary by Uni High.
This project focuses on how affirmative action became part of decision-making in higher education admissions, both at the University of Illinois and more generally in the U.S.
Rebuilding Foundations follows students at University Laboratory High School to Clarksdale, Mississippi, and other Delta communities to see how Habitat for Humanity and other organizations are bringing opportunity and renewed purpose to people's lives.
Plowing Ahead: Portraits of Farming in east central Illinois explains historical trends and current farming practices and sheds light on the lives of farmers through stories of perseverance, hard work, and ingenuity.
