The Black Belt News Network expanded its youth journalism efforts this summer, bringing lessons in reporting, photography and newspaper production to elementary school-aged children participating in the inaugural Triple A+ Summer Academy.

BBNN Publisher Cindy Fisher spent two months working weekly with 25 children attending the summer program at the YMCA in Selma, helping them document their experiences and create a newspaper that was distributed to parents and the community at their graduation on Thursday.

Cindy talked about the new class in this segment of the Black Belt Newscast.

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