What's Going On... Now #CHICAGO

“Hollow” - a film by Shaondell Black and students of YOUmedia for the What’s Going On Now Project.

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Sam Carroll delivers his poem for the What’s Going On Now Project.

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Vanity does spoken word for the What’s Going On Now Project.

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Nano & Nadi perform their song “Blind” for the What’s Going On Now Project. 

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Prince Talent performs his version of “What’s Going On” for the What’s Going On Now Project.  Shout out to the Kennedy Center

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Fatimah Warner performs “Your Life” for the What’s Going On Now Project for the Kennedy Center. 

Kush Thompson speaks her word about the ecology for the What’s Going On Now Project via Kennedy Center. 

Thaddeus Tukes Performs “What’s Going On?” for the What’s Going On Project via Kennedy Center

Anubis and L.A. perform their song “Rainbows N Arizona”  for the What’s Going On Project with the Kennedy Center.  This is an ode to Trayvon Martin.

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Check 2 One 2.  Change can happen.

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Join us this Tuesday April 3, 2012 from 5:30pm-7:30pm @Harold Washington Library Center ( Cindy Pritzker Auditorium- Lower Level ) as we celebrate Marvin Gaye’s life and his concept album What’s Going On. Teens at YouMedia @ Chicago Public Library and around the country have joined to forces to tell us What’s Going On Now. Come out to see what youth from Chicago have to say about society, through music, poetry, and video.

 All Ages Welcome. 

powered by The Kennedy Center + Digital Youth Network

Patrick Mulchay, center, joins other congregants in song during a service at Middle Collegiate Church in New York, Sunday, March 25, 2012.

In this March 21, 2012 photo released by Current TV, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, host of the Current TV’s political talk show “The War Room with Jennifer Granholm” wears a hoodie at her San Francisco studio

Rev. Raphael Warnock wears a hoodie during his morning sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on Sunday, March 25, 2012, in Atlanta.

In this March 21, 2012 photo released by the Children’s Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman of the Children’s Defense Fund

Prince IS Trayvon Martin

“Democratic Congressman Bobby Rush was escorted from the House Wednesday after being reprimanded for wearing a hoodie to protest against the shooting of Trayvon Martin.

“In an interview with the Washington Post, [Trayvon Martin’s parents] praised Rush’s actions. The father, Tracy Martin, said: ‘I would like to commend Congressman Rush for pleading our case. My question would be why wasn’t Congressman Rush allowed to address racial profiling. This is something that needs to be talked about … This is a country of freedom of speech.’”

-Ewen MacAskill via The Guardian. 3/28/2012