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As people roamed the lower level of the Grand Hyatt Hotel
in Washington D.C., members of HarlemLIVE were getting ready
to explain the purpose of HarlemLIVE.
On June 28th, the director of HarlemLIVE Richard Calton
along with HarlemLIVE members Jabari Blackmon, Shem Rajoon
and Aisha Al-Muslim, including former HarlemLIVE editor-in-chief
Eddie Aung, went on this trip to Washington D.C. to represent
HarlemLIVE in the CTCNet annual conference.
HarlemLIVE formed a team with YouthLearn in a session designed
to discuss youth leadership and community engagement. In
this session, HarlemLIVE members talked about being teen
journalist and the struggles they have faced in running
the Internet publication. The members also discussed the
advantages of working at HarlemLIVE and how HarlemLIVE has
helped them in life and in school.
Aung mentioned that it took him about 3 hours to write a
page for a report. To him HarlemLIVE improved his writing
skills and made him a stronger and faster writer. New HarlemLIVE
member Blackmon, talked about his interview with Senator
Hillary Clinton at one of Harlem’s bookstore. Senator
Clinton would only speak to Blackmon because he was a teen
reporter.
YouthLearn shared AT&T Young Leaders’ top ten
list of a great leader and brainstormed with the audience
about community-builder ideas, that will help adults to
have better relationships with teens that they work with.
YouthLearn extracted ideas from the public about ways that
adult can make a stronger bonds between teens and adults
in the media workforce.
The audience perception of HarlemLIVE was positive. They
saw that teens could do positive things in life that will
help them succeed and learn about life’s success and
failures.
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