The Role of Art in Democracy - Our Democracy

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Philadelphia | What does democracy look like? Our Democracy student journalist Katie Fang answers this question through a profile of local teen artist Mekala Kumar.

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Our Democracy at The Philadelphia Writing Project's Youth Journalism Camp 2021 Our Democracy PhilWP Youth Journalism Camp 2021

Teen journalists from the Greater Philadelphia area answer the question "What does democracy look like?" through multimedia journalism about their communities and photographs from their own lives.

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