From Color Lines:
Thirteen-year-old Autum Ashante is a child prodigy. She could read at age 2, and by 3 she was writing and performing poetry. Less than ten years later, at the age of 12, the Bronx native graduated high school and is now widely known as a poet, United Nations youth ambassador, speaker, and activist. But now it's her poetry that conservatives have latched onto and made a fuss about. And in the hoopla, the teenager's college dreams may be at stake.
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