Tashaya Brown, Ny’Azsha Eyth and Kennedy Rainey will read their winning essays and talk about why they participated in Dinwiddie Community Alliance “Who is Your Hero Essay Contest”. Marlene L. Jackson also joins us.

Rory McCarthy (Hazelwood YMCA), Sara Dora (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Hazelwood Branch) and Beth Snyder (Hip Hop on L.O.C.K.) preview their upcoming Youth Voices Poetry Slam.

Hip Hop On L.O.C.K. …

SLB helps 8th graders prepare audio essays on their reflections as they leave Manchester Academic Charter School in a project funded by the Dominion Foundation.

GirlTalk is a youth radio program in which students learn research, interviewing and digital audio editing to create a series of radio broadcasts and podcasts.

This Brooklyn duo harmonizes beautifully and incorporates many different instruments into the mix, adorning their catchy folk/pop songs with winsome orchestration.