The Activist Love Letters program is a curriculum enrichment project for young adults illustrates the dynamic power of dialogue.

 

Activist Love Letters is an interactive social program that allows participants to engage with one another around the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Facilitated by educators, teens will reflect on their feelings about the martyrs of the movement, learn about the impact of #BlackLivesMatter activists, and engage in dialogue and guided art making, through these activities teens will channel their hope and dreams into a community-building framework. The project challenges teens to articulate their hopes and dreams for the future, while honoring the intention, process and performance of activists working to protect the personhood of people of color across the African diaspora.

 

The educational aspects of the program will touch on issues of contemporary public history, social justice, and social activism. This program fits within American Studies, Social Studies, Contemporary American History, Race & Urban Studies, Equity & Gender Studies and Character Building amongst other academic concentration. The art project is the construction of dream catchers, and written letters, both of which will help to facilitate a dialogue concerning social justice, student’s futures, and their dreams for themselves and their communities.

This project will empower youth to see themselves as movement builders, organizers and future activists. Activist Love Letters is a forum to introduce teens to the behind the scenes work of activists, guide learning on demonstrations, direct actions and other forms of resistance.