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Syracuse area dance company offers classes to underrepresented youth
By Brooke Lewis
November 11, 2014 - 9:21am
The Young and Talented Dance Company allows students from low-income areas to perform all across Syracuse.

Akilah Cage was put on bed rest when she had her first child at 23. Most people would have taken that as a sign to stop working, but instead, Cage started the Young and Talented Dance Company.

Edelman on equal education
By Sherri Williams
April 6, 2010 - 11:14pm
Children's advocate Marian Wright Edelman stresses the importance of equal access to education for underprivileged youth.

Policies and institutions that neglect youth are creating a cradle-to-prison pipeline that threatens to swallow a generation and weaken the nation, said children’s advocate Marian Wright Edelman.