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Fri Jan 3, 2014, 04:58 AM Jan 2014

"We Will No Longer Stay Silent To This Classism": NYC Youth Poet Laureate Ramya Ramana

From the Jan. 2 Democracy Now:



http://www.democracynow.org - At Wednesday's inauguration for Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York City's 2014 Youth Poet Laureate Ramya Ramana read a poem titled "New York City," dedicated to Bill de Blasio. Ramana is a youth activist and a first-year student at St. John's University.

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