Having people mispronounce your name isn't just annoying or embarrassing. It's racist.By Keya Roy.

Teens from the Yakima Valley, Seattle Indian Health Board and the Coalition for Refugees from Burma share their thoughts on tortillas, English K-pop.By RadioActive Youth Media.

If you knew that you only had four months to live, what would you do?After suffering three heart attacks, John Beal was told that he was going to die. He decided to use the rest of his life to clean up Hamm Creek, an offshoot of the Duwamish River so polluted the water was yellow.That decision changed the course of John's life and transformed H ...…

My grandpa, Steve Schoettmer, lost his girlfriend Rose to colon cancer in 2017. In the past, his county's Democratic party had approached him about running for office, but he had refused. Rose was too ill.But when he heard that Speaker Paul Ryan was threatening to cut Medicaid and Medicare, he decided that it was time for him to run.…

Darnesha Weary describes step dancing as “creating music and rhythms and beats with every part of your body.” She directs the Northside Step Dance Team in Shoreline, and last year, her team used their dance routine to protest the police shootings of unarmed black people.By Cienne Bronson.

My mom was on the bus one day, riding Route 41 to Chinatown from Northgate, when a white woman slapped her and started yelling at her. My mom told me she was sleeping on the bus when the woman slapped her. “I never had this problem. I don’t know why she yelling me. I don’t understand.”By Kenny Ou.

My grandma taught me everything I needed to know, including how to speak Tagalog. But as I grew older, she stopped teaching me Tagalog. Now, I worry that I am losing my language.By Jadenne Radoc Cabahug.

There was a time when the one emotion I knew better than the rest was sadness. I have never met a kid as sad as I was. I cried at school, at the Boys and Girls Club, at home, at my cousins' house — everywhere. It wasn't until I started writing that the tears slowed down.By Tre'vion Sinclair.

The Eritrean War of Independence started in 1961 and lasted for 30 years, until the Eritrean People's Liberation Front defeated Ethiopian forces in 1991.Nearly one-third of all soldiers in the Eritrean People's Liberation Front were women, including my relative, Akberet Asfaha.By Mimi Zekaryas.

I was shocked when I saw the pictures that a Buddhist monk from my temple posted on Instagram. Venerable Prenz posts pictures of himself hiking and traveling around the world. I saw pictures of him studying for his college classes and visiting with his family. Honestly, his Instagram looked a lot like everyone else's — except that he's a Buddhi ...…

My mom, Maryanne Battles, and her older brother, Chris, had an extremely difficult childhood. But they always had each other.By Acacia Niyogi.

Under the Chinese Exclusion Act, people had to create false papers to immigrate. My grandfather, who came here in 1937, had to pretend he belonged to another family. It took him decades to build his own family.By Joshua Fernandes.

When my mom was young, at the age of five, she started thinking about herself as a boy. My mother was assigned female at birth, but when she was little, she had the classic childhood experiences of a transgender boy. It was almost stereotypical. She thought about being a boy before she was even in kindergarten.…

By Enya Garcia.

By Keya Roy.

I go to a special high school with a focus on aviation. Although I love my school, sometimes I feel like I don't get to explore my creative side. So I started asking questions: What role should art play in STEM education? And how can creativity help us to be better scientists or engineers?By Braeden Swanson.

"I began to think, maybe what they're saying is true. Maybe my people don't do good."By Selam Demile.

The bathroom is a universal experience, right? Well, not for me. Instead, I am one of the very lucky 1.5 million with an inflammatory bowel disease.By Kamil Saad.

By Meghana Kakubal.

One of the world's biggest cities was once a safe haven for Jewish refugees. During World War II, more than 18,000 Jews sought refuge in Shanghai. They witnessed the war from a perspective that often goes unheard. My neighbor Werner Glass is one of them.By Lila Shroff.

A young white guy, clean cut with dark hair, started shouting racial slurs and spit on her. Only one person checked to see if she was okay.By Leila Abe.

Last summer, he sang a song I hadn't heard before. He told me what the lyrics mean: let us dance, and let us sing folk songs, because we have achieved independence. At first I was confused. What independence? From whom? And what's going on here?By Medha Kumar.

Stories produced in RadioActive's first radio journalism workshop for teens in the Tri-Cities.By Ann Kane.

Many conspiracy theories can become outlandish but some have a kernel of truth to them. How can you tell what is fact and what's just pure speculation?By Marceline Flynn.

When did your childhood end? How do you keep your childhood alive?By Tre'vion Sinclair.

While we might think plants are not sentient, they are constantly communicating with each other. Some even think that plants communicate with us. Perhaps even more startling: some theorize that plants have actually domesticated us.By Kamil Saad.

By Will Rasmussen.

By Mimi Zekaryas.

How Wonder Woman, Spider-Man and Black Panther challenged tradition and changed the American superhero industry for the better.By Will Rasmussen.

What happens to men who want to defy the system? To find out, we talk to Seattle drag queens.By Kamil Saad.

How do women find an accepting community in witchcraft? We hear three stories from different women about their journey into the occult, from conversion to dual religions.By Acacia Niyogi.

Everyday we encounter things we don’t question and just accept. Things like stop signs: why are they octagons? And fire trucks: why are they red? At...By NPR Staff.

Bill Radke talks to two local student activists about how they were inspired to organize. We talk to Justin Velasco, who helped found the Seattle...By Bill Radke.

The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida sparked a youth movement for change across the nation. In part two of our...By Medha Kumar.

We know what rap is today, but not everyone knows where it came from and how it started. Today we will discuss rap and its evolution. Grandmaster Flash,...By KUOW STAFF.

Twenty teens from Seattle and beyond have spent their summer at KUOW and Jack Straw Cultural Center creating podcasts and radio stories. They...By RadioActive Youth Media.

I've always known I was adopted because I have white parents. In school, people talked about what traits they got from each of their parents: their eyes...By KUOW STAFF.

The popularity of cooking shows, food photography, and fine dining testifies to the fact that in today’s culture our need to eat goes far beyond...By Patrick Liu.

It's graduation season, and while many are donning their caps and gowns, others are taking a different path. Like me. I've spent the spring trying to...By Alivia Thrift.

I am 18 years old, and I have a condition where I am very hyper aware of things. I have ADHD and anxiety, so my attention span is very limited. I'm not...By Maya Konz.

In March, thousands of students took to the streets of Seattle to protest gun violence. March for Our Lives was organized by everyday high school...By Aliyah Musaliar.

There are only about 125 doctors across the country who perform heart surgery on children and babies. Mike McMullan is one of them. He works at Seattle...By Diego Villarroel.

Nostalgia — that universal bittersweet longing for times gone by — hits hardest during our most important life transitions. But how does nostalgia arise...By KUOW STAFF.

Are you a fan of "Harry Potter"? Or maybe Sabrina the Teenage Witch ? Ever wonder if witchcraft actually involves a wand and broom? Witch culture is...By KUOW STAFF.

By Brian Freeland.

KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media partnered with the Coalition for Refugees from Burma to run a six-week podcasting workshop with refugee youth at Kent...By KUOW STAFF.

Two young men created this song at the Echo Glen Children's Center, a maximum security facility in Snoqualmie, in a series of workshops with RadioActive...By TWO YOUNG MEN IN JUVENILE JAIL.

Death is a heavy topic, but sometimes it's still okay to joke about it. In this episode of the RadioActive podcast, Zeytun Ahmed and Patrick Liu explore...By KUOW STAFF.

Five years ago Alma Kimura was a successful lawyer. She played tennis every Thursday and was a part of a book club. Then one of her tennis partners...By Carlin Bills.

My mom and I are kind of the same person. Look at our muddy little eyes and how they crinkle when we smile. And our thick black hair, which we keep tied...By RILEY COLLINS.