Paul Robeson High School

This video was made to enter the YouthVoiceNYC contest. The topic of the contest was to produce a video about making positive changes in our city. We are proud to announce our video won the 4th place runner up. Thank you to all who participated, and we are looking forward to produce more socially conscious videos in the future!

In this honest look of the students and teachers from Robeson High School, we examine the serious issue of education neglect. Difficult questions such as the phasing out of our school in 2014, and teaching a class when one is unfamiliar with the subject are candidly answered by the collective school body.

The video was created with symbolisms drawn from the Occupy Wall Street movement. We see this in some of the signs students created in the work, as well as the video’s soundtrack.

Recently we divided in two groups and had a walk around the block of Paul Robeson High School to observe and take pictures of things and/or people we’d find interesting and related to our life at school. Here there are some of those images.

Thursday we went to 8th floor gallery on 17th street in Manhattan to see a show called Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuba. Some of Roberto’s friends were in the show.

This is what the gallery said about the show:

“The thirteen artists featured in Queloides—Pedro Álvarez, Manuel Arenas, Belkis Ayón, María Magdelena Campos-Pons, Roberto Diago, Alexis Esquivel, Armando Mariño, René Peña, Marta María Pérez Bravo, Doulgas Pérez, Elio Rodriguez, Meira Marrero and José Toirac—offer a revisionist, critical reading of the history of Cuba that highlights the contributions of the Africans and their descendants to the formation of the Americas in general, and the Cuban nation in particular”.

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Last Monday, Nozaire, Chelomy, Yasir and Rubens went into the BCAL recording studio to record their song about AIDS. The song, sung in Creole and English, deals with the discrimination people face with AIDS. The recording is a 4 part vocal set to the song “Where d’ya go?” by Fort Minor.