[sudo-discuss] teaching black history through music - I'm so blown away

[Cere Misc]

I like the direction that you're thinking.  I personally don't have any
ideas on how to merge the two, but it's a great idea.  I have heard good
things about YGB.

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Romy Ilano <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to work out some interesting ideas for the SudoKit project,
> inspired and copying stuff from the Waldorf school.
> Why not mix art and music?
> This example just blew me away.
>
>
> http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/19/young-gifted-and-black-teaches-oakland-students-history-with-music/
>
> Young Gifted and Black, or YGB, is a youth performance ensemble based in
> Oakland. More than 50 performers — ranging in age from 6 to 18 — learn and
> memorize compilations of historical black poems and contemporary raps,
> which they perform around the Bay Area.
>
> “We try to cover anywhere from 50 to 100 years of history in our
> presentation,” said Hodari Davis, director of YGB. The program aims to
> teach black students aspects of their history not taught in school, and to
> allow the students to relay their knowledge to the community through
> performance.
>
>
> YGB <http://younggiftedandblack.org/index.html> has emerged in Oakland
> from a strong family legacy. Hodari’s mother, Laroilyn Davis, was the
> original founder of YGB in Ithaca, New York. She started YGB in 1981 when
> Hodari was in third grade, as she recognized the lack of black history in
> her son’s curriculum.
>
> The Davis family decided to revitalize YGB in Oakland six years ago when
> Hodari’s daughter, Ikera Davis, was in middle school. Ikera now performs in
> the high school group and teaches the younger students.
>
> Hodari writes original raps for the students to learn, combining them with
> historical songs and poems he grew up performing. The high school group
> incorporates more contemporary messages in their sets, with pieces about
> today’s police brutality and discrimination. The younger students learn and
> perform mantras from prominent black leaders such as Huey Newton and W.E.B.
> Du Bois.
>
> “They don’t perform like cute little kids,” said Hodari’s wife, Candice
> Davis, who also teaches for YGB. “They perform like they mean it.”
>
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> Romy Ilano
> romy at snowyla.com
>
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