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For more than 10 years, Baltimore’s Youth Poet Laureate Competition has empowered young people to speak their truth

On a rainy Saturday afternoon at Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse in late April, bustling with people eating, working, and socializing, Marcellus Vinson is talking about prescription drugs and prisons to a rapt audience.  As Vinson closes the poem to a raucous applause, a woman from the audience, moved to tears, runs to embrace him. She […]

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