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Listen: Teen DJ Remembers Gabriel Garcia Marquez

WUNC | By Carol Jackson

Published July 7, 2014 at 3:04 PM EDT

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Chapel Hill, NC teenager Jennah Jones is also known as DJ Twice. She's part of a project in which teens listen to NPR news stories and and create alternate versions, with original hip hop soundtracks.

The project is called Remixing the News. It is produced by the Beat Making Lab and North Carolina Public Radio/WUNC. >>Read the project blog.

Teen: have time this summer and want to make your own beats? There is a Beat Making Lab in Chapel Hill at the Street Scene Teen Center, 179 East Franklin Street. You can drop in for free.