Join us today for another episode of Black Teen Empowerment Radio as we feature an interview with the youth music group Watoto From The Nile conducted by highschool student Chanel Morson, a Black Talk Media Project youth reporter.
The group is composed of three sisters stemming from their home town of Harriet Tubman City (Baltimore, Maryland) have come to silence all notions of the youth being lost and uncontrollable. Still in elementary school, Nia, Nya and Kamaria, known as Watoto From the Nile, are a young African-centered, thought provoking, socially and culturally conscious music group. They are a testament to the fact that music can be used for much more than to propagandize messages of death and destruction. The “money, cash, hoes” days are very much coming to a close and these young divas are leading the way for change.
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After the interview the Black Teen Empowerment Crew will discuss how Federal budget cuts may impact youth in our communities. A federally funded youth crime prevention program in Hawaii is slated to be defunded by Sept 30, 2011 and is just one example of programs for youth that will be a causualty of the budget crisis facing Congress. What are some of the solutions to funding worthy projects without relying on federal grants that can dry up depending upon the political mood of whatever political party controlls the purse strings.
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