Marian Mohamed
Stories
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'It's kept me alive': Kent residents rely on free farmers market in Walnut Park
For the past seven months on Friday afternoons, residents of Kent’s Walnut Park neighborhood have been able to pick up fresh produce and dry goods from an outdoor market. And it’s all free. The Walnut Park market is one of four free mobile markets in South King County run by the non-profit FareStart. RadioActive’s Marian Mohamed talked with Walnut Park residents about what the market means to them.
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When your favorite Disney movie becomes a 'Problematic fave': What does diversity in media really look like?
We’ve come a long way when it comes to seeing diversity on screen. But diversity isn’t enough, especially when the depictions we see on screen are based on stereotypes. That can cause more harm than good.
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Welcome KUOW's 2021 RadioActive advanced youth producers
KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media is proud to offer our advanced journalism workshop. Twelve graduates of our introduction to journalism workshop will spend the spring with KUOW online.
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This Kent teen grocery shops for her family. It's an anxiety-ridden experience
18-year-old RadioActive youth producer Marian Mohamed documented her shopping trips during the pandemic, and how the groceries she buys are used in her family’s home, for KUOW.
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Gen Z teens on balancing growing up with saving the world
Two teens share an hour of stories created by young people, and discuss the balance between teen activism and just being a kid.
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The barrier between us is breaking: How politics brought my mom and me closer
Sometimes politics drive family and friends apart. But when Ilhan Omar, the first Somali-American congresswoman, was elected in 2018, my mom and I became closer than ever before.
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Welcome to the void
The year is 1958. A string of disappearances leads intrepid junior reporter Mary Price out to investigate a mysterious tip. When her tape recorder is discovered years later, the story revealed shocks the world.
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'You won't kill me.' The repetitive reality of police brutality cases
About one in every thousand black men can expect to be killed by police.