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Students from the youth group Teen Empowerment cheer on their peer, Myqyng Arline, while he raps a song he wrote during the group’s Open Mic Night in Rochester, N.Y., on March 5, 2022. Arline’s song was about his personal experience with poverty. Teen Empowerment is a youth group that hires teenagers annually to be Youth Organizers (YOs) to work together to focus on changing a social issue in the City of Rochester. This years group chose poverty and they organized a food drive around the theme.