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2 California groups win White House youth award

By Sean Cockerham

scockerham@mcclatchydc.com

November 11, 2016 12:03 PM

First lady Michelle Obama applauds during the Democratic National Convention on July 25, 2016, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Next week at the White House she’ll honor the recipients of the 2016 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award.
First lady Michelle Obama applauds during the Democratic National Convention on July 25, 2016, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Next week at the White House she’ll honor the recipients of the 2016 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award. Clem Murray TNS
First lady Michelle Obama applauds during the Democratic National Convention on July 25, 2016, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Next week at the White House she’ll honor the recipients of the 2016 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award. Clem Murray TNS
WASHINGTON

Michelle Obama will give awards to two California youth groups at the White House next week.

The San Francisco-based Next Gen Bay Area Video Coalition and tribal youth ambassadors from the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center in Santa Rosa are among a dozen awardees of the 2016 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award.

The award is meant to support the best after-school arts and humanities programs in the country.

It’s a function of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, an advisory group to the White House on cultural issues that was created in 1982 under President Ronald Reagan.

Sean Cockerham: 202-383-6016, @seancockerham

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