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Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes

Light in Dark Places: Art as a Resource in Healing This exhibit will feature the poetry-informed research of the Fearless Writers (FW) and collaboration between Rogers High School and UToledo social work program. This year, the students have focused their writing exploration on youth leadership and human trafficking. FW was also part of an ongoingContinue reading “20th Anniversary Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference”

When we returned in-person at Rogers High School fall of 2021 we attempted to go back to our old structure. Freshman free write, sophomore autobiography, junior and senior social justice research. Our juniors started to brainstorm social justice ideas but as we began writing into social injustice prompts they demanded we go back to writingContinue reading “Creative Expression: Recovering from a Crisis”

https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/E2bTnDJKJ3fkUOzwFy-0aHJl166ysr7ftPvioBXgdrrRfct99kTkWuO02BQlf07j.wMSwTZnJ2AuDFTfG The above link will play a (rough) recording of the slideshow below. With the writing shared at the Black Issues Conference on Sept 9, 2022 at Bowling Green State University. We are so grateful for the support and encouragement of the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Black Student Union over the past severalContinue reading “Black Issues Conference 2022”

https://us-lti.bbcollab.com/recording/fde12c142feb4d6e9f288bff96a56c2f The above link is a recording of Marco’s poem shared at the Black Issues Conference, “If these walls could talk” DaMarco Hill who goes by Marco grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He earned a BA in Psychology from UToledo. He is currently a part-time MSW student in the social work program at UToledo. “WhenContinue reading “DaMarco Hill”

The following two poems were selected by the Fearless Writers as the best student and mentor representations of our 6-week focus on the rising numbers of teens with depression. At the bottom of these two pieces you will find a slide show of written pieces from Fearless Writers participants both University of Toledo and RogersContinue reading “Using our voice to raise awareness about a mental health crisis: COVID, depression, and young women of color”

Featured Artist: Jessica Flores is a recent graduate from the University of Toledo BSW program. Jessica was inspired to share her poetry and artwork after reading some of the Fearless Writers work completed during the COVID shut down. The Third of NovemberWritten by Jessica Flores (all rights reserved) Will we remember the third of November?AContinue reading “Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference 2021”

Inspired by Wendell Berry’s ‘How to be a Poet’September 23, 2020 There are no unsacred placesfits as I sit at my makeshift workspacebed behind mesmall child watching cartoonsand I writeput pen to paperallow sacredness to falllike incense filling the churchhigh holy daysthe birds are rattlingthe leaves of the elder maplecreating nests and songsharing sacred notesthroughContinue reading “September 2020”