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By Any Media Necessary: Mapping Youth and Participatory Politics

Media About Faith

The beliefs, rituals, and ceremonies associated with religion, spirituality, and faith are central to many people’s identities and lives. Religion and faith also play powerful roles in defining groups, institutions, ideologies, cultures, and nations.

The media in this section engage with topics such as religious identity and representation, discrimination, the multiplicity and intersectionality of identities, religion and law, religion and government, religion and civic rights, and other related topics.

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Raise Up - by Get Lit Players. Youth Speaks, in collaboration with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Millennium Stage, present an evening to celebrate the winners of the national spoken word competition designed to foster discussion among young people and adults about the challenges and opportunities students face as they strive to stay on the path to graduation. Hosted by D.C. hip-hop artist Gabriel “Asheru” Benn, the program will feature performances from each of the five winners, plus an appearance by DJ Questlove and Black Thought, NPR’s Glynn Washington, and Hill Harper. The RAISE Up project is part of American Graduate - Let's Make It Happen! - a public media initiative to address the drop out crisis, supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.