RadioActive’s Leija Farr, Seattle’s first youth poem laureate, produced this piece in 2015 in response to Mike Brown’s killing at the hands of the police. Today Leija writes, “the sad reality is that Black boys and men still need a written anthem to remind them of their worth, in a world that wants them to believe otherwise.” | **RadioActive Snapshots: 10 years of stories by Seattle teens - new episodes every Thursday**
RadioActive’s Leija Farr, Seattle’s first youth poem laureate, produced this piece in 2015 in response to Mike Brown’s killing at the hands of the police. Today Leija writes, “the sad reality is that Black boys and men still need a written anthem to remind them of their worth, in a world that wants them to believe otherwise.” | **RadioActive Snapshots: 10 years of stories by Seattle teens - new episodes every Thursday**