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Weaving the Web of Community: Project Report

Students at the Center students from McDonogh 35 and Frederick Douglass Senior High Schools in New Orleans recently shared their thoughts on ways to promote peace in two public venues. Adriane Frazier and Towana Pierre, both juniors, wrote poems commissioned on three days' notice for the Interfaith Stop the Hate Candlelight Vigil held in Audobon Park on Sunday, September 19.

Bruce "Philosophy" Coleman, assistant editor of Our Voice, the city-wide teen newspaper, wrote this a personal essay in response to the New Orleans' Friends Society's call for teen perspectives on ways to promote peace in everyday life.

All three pieces suggest strategies for recognizing and overcoming hatred and violence based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation.

Publications:

• Promoting Peace, by Bruce.
  
  
• Hate, by Adriane Frazier.
  
  
• HATE, by Towana Pierre
  
  

Student Projects

• SAC Students Join Forces with the Fred Hampton Youth Action Committee and PJ's Frenchmen
  
  
• Students Get Trashed on Saturdays