Youth Media Workshop
Empowering economically diverse African-American youth from public schools to make media and social change
Youth Media Workshop partners with public schools in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, to teach African-American youth how to make radio and television documentaries that link their generation, the hip-hop generation, to the civil rights and black power generations
Students are taught by a multi-racial team of media professionals from the public broadcasting station WILL AM-FM-TV, scholars and journalism students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and local teachers and community leaders.
Youth Media Workshop is co-directed by William Patterson, Ph.D., from the U of I African American Cultural Center and Kimberlie Kranich of WILL AM-FM-TV.
What Students Learn
Students in the Youth Media Workshop learn to:
- conduct library research;
- interview their families, peers and community members;
- professionally edit audio and video into radio and TV programs;
- present their findings at public events and conferences;
- think analytically, problem solve and lead group discussions with their peers;
- contribute research to the field of youth media and community-based archiving.
The long-term goal of the workshop is for young people to understand the significance of their history in order to pass it on to future generations to build better communities, to build stronger points of self-esteem and stronger identities and to be agents for change in society and mass media.
Partners
WILL’s Youth Media Workshop (YMW) received the 2006 Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement Team Award from the Office of the Chancellor at the University of Illinois.
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What are the students of The Youth Media Workshop learning that complements what they’re learning in school? How has this informal partnership between WILL, the U of I African American Cultural Center, and local school districts benefited at-risk African-American students?
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Filmmaker Byron Hurt, whose
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes aired on PBS in February, participated in a free public screening of the documentary and a town hall discussion.
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Students in WILL’s Youth Media Workshop wrote a letter that convinced filmmaker Byron Hurt to visit Champaign-Urbana to speak about his new documentary on masculinity and hip-hop.
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Urbana High School Student Filmmakers Present Video on History and Future of Douglass Park Drum Corps
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WILL’s 2005-2006 Youth Media Workshop helped 12 male African-American students at Urbana High School make a pilot video about the Douglass Park area of Champaign, which for many years was the social center of the black community in Champaign-Urbana.
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Dereke Clements says he felt special in 1968 when, as a fourth grader, he was chosen to leave his all-black school and take a school bus with other black children to the formerly all-white Lottie Switzer School. But it wasn’t long before he realized that desegregation was going to be harder than he expected.
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A radio documentary produced by Franklin Middle School girls with guidance from WILL-AM
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