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The People Speak visits Englewood High in Chicago

Empowerment in the Classroom
How do we teach high school students to see themselves as protagonists in history? One idea involves Lupe Fiasco, Matt Damon, and the late Howard Zinn.
by Yana Kunichoff
Yes! Magazine

On Chicago's far Southeast side, past streets lined with boarded up buildings and 24-hour liquor stores, ten high school students buzzing with nervous energy enter a room full of adults—who may be just as excited as they are.

The school is Team Englewood High School, located in one of the city's poorest communities, and the students are part of a group that will perform a local spinoff performance of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States in the spring.

www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/englewood-speaks

Anthony Arnove on Voices of a People's History of the United States

"If you don't have that sense of how things have changed in the past, it would be very easy to despair about the present," says Anthony Arnove, co-editor, along with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People's History of the United States. in that book, Arnove helped organize the words of historical figures, rebels and visionaries—readings that keenly showed how voices from the past can and do speak directly to the present.

Arnove is also co-director (with Howard Zinn and Chris Moore) of The People Speak.

(Video courtesy of The Nation magazine)

Excellent press coverage of "The People Speak" in Chicago

Photos: The People Speak, Live!
TimeOut Chicago
timeoutchicago.com/things-to-do/chicago-blog/15106019/the-people-...

Johnny B talks to Director/Producer Chris Moore about his documentary "The People Speak"
WGN Chicago
www.wgnradio.com/shows/brandmeier/wgnam-brandmeier-morning-daywat...

Matt Damon leads an evening of left-leaning prose at Metro
Chicago Tribune: The Theater Loop
www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/theaterloop/ct-ent-0...

Kevin Coval On "The People Speak," Howard Zinn, and why the time for change is now
Huffington Post
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/19/kevin-coval-the-people-speak_n_...

Matt Damon and Lupe Fiasco bring "The People's History" to Chicago students
WBEZ Chicago
www.wbez.org/episode-segments/2012-02-02/matt-damon-and-lupe-fias...

Matt Damon visits school in Englewood: Actor preps kids for project inspired by the progressive historian Howard Zinn
WBEZ Chicago
www.wbez.org/story/matt-damon-visits-school-englewood-96006

The People Speak, at Metro in Chicago

A People's History of the United States banned from (some) Arizona schools, along with Mexican Studies program

"To make sure that everyone got the point, the authorities directed the staff to collect and box seven of the most offensive books during class time so that the students would see them being packed up and carried to trucks bound for a distant book depository."

Book Banning in Arizona
ACADEME BLOG
January 24, 2012
By Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic