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Toni Blackman, a 1999 Echoing Green Fellow and international champion of hip-hop culture, was recently interviewed on New York’s WCBS’s morning show. As hip-hop ambassador with the U.S. State Department’s American Music Abroad Program, she is on her way to the Congo to demonstrate the power of music to heal--even in a war-torn country.

Watch the whole interview here.