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Play a four minute clip
on HarlemLive from ABC Children First, "The Technology Connection,"
July 21, 2000. Readers can access the work of HarlemLive
at www.harlemlive.org.
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Since 1996, HarlemLive has provided a teen-centered program
unprecedented in New York City. Our young people have traveled
to Sweden, Rome and Washington, D.C. to accept awards for
their success in producing a domestic and international, award-winning,
state-of-the-art news and cultural web magazine. These accomplishments
delineate the direction we must take with inner city youth.
HarlemLive has been broadcast and praised on CNN and ABC
and written
about in The New York Times, The Daily News, USA Today, Parade
Magazine,
The Village Voice and countless other publications throughout
the world.
HarlemLive has produced teens that exemplify a positive sense
of cultural
identity, which helped them to become economically self-sufficient,
well-educated, self assured and contributing members of society
who have
an active interest in their local communities.
The HarlemLive magazine/web site was created in the spring
of 1996 by a
former public school teacher who left teaching to help schools
set up
their own web sites with the Institute for Learning Technologies.
He soon
realized that the immediacy and multimedia glamour of Internet
publishing
could inspire students to take up journalism and computing,
as well as
get them more involved in their neighborhoods.
Alumna Tameeka Mitchem says that, unlike the mainstream media's
"very
narrow" coverage of Harlem, HarlemLive gives residents
a voice on local
issues, such as the raising of school exam standards, as well
as national
concerns like gun control. Students also have a role in
"cross-pollination" between local groups that otherwise
would be working
in isolation. It is common in the HarlemLive office for young
people to
meet each other for the first time, only to find they are
neighbors.
The project's supervisors allocate stories and encourage
students to
stretch themselves by producing a range of work, from news
to reviews of
local arts and performances to creative written work and video.
Experience found at HarlemLive has paid off in real achievements
and
raised expectations of the teens who have gone on to college
or well-paid
jobs in technology or web professions.
Angel Colon, the original chief editor says HarlemLive "feels
like a
job," but a job he enjoys.
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