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FORWARDEVER MEDIA CENTER

Writer Alex Haley writing The Autobiography of Malcolm X with Brother Malcolm.

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses."
- Malcolm X

Mission

The Forwardever Media Center is 100% committed to providing unconventional writing workshops and media literacy training to "at-risk" Black youth, particularly males, ages 14 through 24. Working in partnership with The Mentoring Center in Oakland, CA., the Center's writing workshops, website internship, and film forums, help students develop critical thinking skills and discover their creative talents. We recruit youth for our programs from the California Youth Authority (the state's largest prison for youth) as well as from universities and high schools. This cross-pollination of young minds creates dynamic shared experiences.

Programs

Whatchusay Cinema–A monthly film forum hosted at schools or community centers in Northern California that explores issues such as race, class, gender, and society. Students are joined by a panel of activists, educators, athletes, entrepreneurs, etc. to rate the films and convene roundtable discussions about corresponding relevant issues in society. For info about film screenings and schedules contact: cheo@whatchusay.com

Writing Workshops–We offer intensive seminars in journalism, creative writing, cultural criticism, new media, film production, etc. These seminars are taught at the center, located at 1224 Preservation Park, Oakland, CA, 94612. They are also available on location, at schools, community and detention centers, churches, etc. For info about class schedules contact: cheo@whatchusay.com

Internships–Whatchusay.com offers competitive internships to young writers who have clearly demonstrated a passion for the craft of writing or media production. The 3-month internship covers news writing and reporting, feature writing, creative writing, media literacy and new media. Working in partnership with community based organizations, universities and international and national media outlets, we produce a pipeline of informed journalists of color who will go on to create their own independent media organizations or work for major media organizations.

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give a brotha a blog

A young woman employed at Ladies Home Journal recently got fired for dishing about her editors and the inside goings-on at the mag on her blog. Then as fate would have it, People magazine did an article on her about it. Now she's been offered a column at several other magazines, has a book deal on the table and is "famous." A guy at Google kept a blog and revealed why the company is so successful: they don't let anyone go home! He got canned too. But has most likely already been hired by microsoft. Seems everyone is keeping a cyber-diary or blog these days. Problem is, a lot of 'em ain't saying anything empowering to the powerless. Here's an idea: someone needs to come up with a blog for the brotha on the street corner moving weight. I want to hear from him. What are his daily demons and by-any-means-necessary hustles to stay afloat? Yeah, give a brotha a blog. And watch the world respond.
-ct

Posted on August 2, 2005 10:26 AM

Comments (43)

maximillian:

Brothas on the corner in every major city in America have probably seen more human drama unfold than most cats fighting in Iraq. Many of them have genius minds and would make great presidents of Fortune 500 companies. THe problem is how to reach them? Get 'em off the corner and in the boardroom or classroom. How do we do that?

Posted by maximillian | October 13, 2005 9:47 AM

Posted on October 13, 2005 09:47

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