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This conference will address the crisis of mass criminalization and incarceration confronting African-American and other Black Diaspora communities, to develop new insight and strategies in the struggle against crime, destructive criminal justice policies, and racialized forms of injustice.
[ Conference flyer ]
[ Conference website ]
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In partnership with the Hiphop Summit Action Network and Rush
Philanthropic Arts Foundation, the Africana Criminal Justice
Project organized a series of events during Summer 2002 to
promote and enhance youth-based leadership in the pursuit of
social justice. Art education has been recognized as a powerful
method of reaching out to educate and empower young people,
and there is increasing interest in engaging Hiphop in this
capacity. To inform these efforts, and our own work in particular,
we felt it would be worthwhile to assess the use of art education
as a teaching and organizing tool. To this end, the series
showcased youth-produced multi-media and film projects related
to Hiphop, Arts Education, and Youth-Based Leadership. Each
meeting involved a screening of a specific project, followed
by a discussion of the project details, the social justice
issues it raised, and implications for future educational and
empowerment initiatives. Several arts organizations and youth-oriented
programs participated in the series, including: Art Start,
Red Clay Arts, Educational Video Center (EVC), Downtown Community
Television (DCTV), Def Poetry, Friends of Island Academy, Blossom
Girls, and the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Educational
Services (CASES). For more information, please see the detailed
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