What is The Philadelphia Youth Project (PYP)? The goal of the Philadelphia Youth Project (PYP) is to engage, encourage and educate the youth in Philadelphia through community events, ‘life-building’ workshops and educational events. Why I am starting the Philadelphia Youth Project? My n... Read more...
IMANI- to believe with our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle! The Principle Imani:“Commitment, duty, and obligation to trust and believe in our people and our parents and our meet all challenges and to ... Read more...
Andre J. Jackson/ Detroit Free Press About 50 high school students at Frederick Douglass Academy in Detroit were suspended today after walking out of classes to protest a lack of consistent teachers, the removal of the principal and a host of other administrative problems at the all... Read more...
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” Frederick Douglass On Saturday, February 18, 2012, t... Read more...
Robert Hayden Robert Hayden was a poet, essayist, educator. He was appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1976. Hayden was elected to the American Academy of Poets in 1975. From 1976 - 1978, Hayden was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (the first Af... Read more...
Hallie Quinn Brown Hallie Quinn Brown was a educator, writer and activist. She was dean of Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina from 1885 to 1887 and principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama from 1892 to 1893 under Frederick Douglass. She became a professor at Wilberforce in 189... Read more...