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The Story of East Palo Alto & Live in Peace

Street Soldiers Radio introduces you to the city of East Palo Alto and the birth of Live in Peace with Heather Starnes-Logwood and Eugene Jackson. They empower their youth to reclaim the vision for their future. http://traffic.libsyn.com/aliveandfree/streetsoldiers_radio_liveinpeace_eastpaloalto_oct_6_2019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

Street Soldiers Radio chats with The Ever Forward Club’s Ashanti Branch to discover how he started the #100KMasks challenge and how his unique approach to helping young people around the world look behind the mask and inside themselves is really making a difference in their lives. In the studio with Ashanti Branch, Darnell Waters, Victor…

Marcus Byrd-Ray is Alive & Free and is giving back to his community. 2019 marks his 3rd annual backpack giveaway in his home town of North Richmond, CA with his non-profit, Change4FiveHundred.

Revisiting Social Media

Street Soldiers Radio talks about the effects of social media with in studio guest, Alan Poindexter from the Youtube series, Welcome to the Table and the studio crew. We also chat with Tyra Fennell, President & CEO, of Imprint City. Tyra Fennell has served tirelessly through her work as founding director of Imprint City, to activate…

Wise words to keep you Alive & Free. http://traffic.libsyn.com/aliveandfree/streetsoldiers_wisewords_Sept_15_2019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

The United College Action Network, Inc. (U-CAN) is a 501c(3) nonprofit corporation that provides leadership services and college preparation assistance to students desiring to enroll in four-year postsecondary colleges, with a focus on admissions to Nation’s over 100 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). We attended their college fair Sept. 9th, 2019 where tons of students filled out…

Street Soldiers Radio introduces you to our collegians. Meet Xavion Babers, a freshman from the Oakland High who shares his first weeks at Tuskegee University and Assata Gui’chard from Vallejo who is at Spelman College. We also dive into The 1619 Projectis a program organized by The New York Times with the goal of re-examining the…

Our newest collegians have officially started college and have the best stories to share as they visit us Tuesday nights. “My dad walked me onto the Diablo Valley College campus and his smile was bigger than mine,” shares Samariah Eastman as she giggles about her first day on her college campus. “I did get a…

Have you ever wondered what our collegians are working on as they are away at college? Jaime Esquivel shared with us his current research paper on “Effects and Solutions on the Human Body After Long-Duration Space Flights” featured in the McNair Research Journal at San Jose State University. The McNair Research Journal SJSU features the work of SJSU…