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Project Soapbox Forum Helps Chicago Middle Schoolers Find Their Voice

Chicago middle schoolers work on a root cause analysis of a speech topic. Photo by Jasmine Armand

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2013.  Fourteen-year-old South Shore resident Shakira Nunnally knows gun violence firsthand. She has lost five close friends and saw eight teens gunned down while walking home from the store with her father last year.

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“I was like so nervous,” said Nunnally, a student at Perspectives Middle Academy in Chicago’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood. “I was crying and…

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