...I have been drawn to witnessing how educators in our community are talking to their students about Ferguson. This led me back to Clayton High School. Professional actress and drama teacher at Clayton High, Kelley Weber, will be playing the role of Duke (a drama teacher at Clayton High, based on her) in our production of Good in Everything. Three days after Michael Brown’s mother laid him to rest, Kelley brought together two professional actors and over 200 students and administrators for a staged reading of Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman. Dutchman, was written in 1964 and focuses on relations between a black man and a white woman on a subway train in civil rights era New York City. Ms. Weber invited Dr. Jonathan Smith, Professor of African American Studies at Saint Louis University and father of two students that attended Clayton High School as part of the Voluntary Desegregation Program, to facilitate. Graciously, Dr. Smith and Ms. Weber agreed to share their ideas on the project... - Jennifer Wintzer, #FergusonMoment, bit.ly/Yi0u8y
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 16:45:36 +0000