P.S. du Pont Middle School Kicks off the year with All Are Welcome Diversity and Belonging Assembly
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MEMPHIS STREET ACADEMY & KEY ARTS CELEBRATES AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE
The Auditorium at the Memphis Street Academy Charter School was filled with attentive stdeunts as Key Arts presented the Let Freedom Sing assembly program as a part of their Black History
Month celebration.
The educational and interactive live performance program that celebrates the vitality of the freedom songs that were crucial in helping the civil rights activists during the American Civil Rights Movement, and explored the power of these simple but stirring anthems that inspired unity and social activism through a mix of archival film footage and musical performance. ” The singers were reaily good,” I liked the assembly, ” a student added.
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Students listened to informative commentary, which provided the stories behind the songs and the historical context surrounding their release. Participants in the auditorium clapped and sang along to the inspirational songs that evolved from slave chants, the labor movement, and the black church.
“The students and I enjoyed the program and will have Mr. Patterson and his group back to our school,” says Ms. Chantell Wilson, the seventh-grade science teacher and coordinator of the Black History assembly.
“Music is a powerful way to bring us together. It engages young people and enables them to think and feel the message of unity, freedom, and justice that we try to express to them. We feel their energy, and it’s fantastic, ” says Key Arts president Joseph Patterson.