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In memory of Howard Zinn (1922-2010) and in appreciation of his life's work, the Brooklyn Historical Society and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation would like to share excerpts from an interview we conducted with Howard Zinn on December 8, 2008.
Original page: http://vimeo.com/9323456
Empowerment in the Classroom
How do we teach high school students to see themselves as protagonists in history? One idea involves Lupe Fiasco, Matt Damon, and the late Howard Zinn.
by Yana Kunichoff
Yes! Magazine
On Chicago's far Southeast side, past streets lined with boarded up buildings and 24-hour liquor stores, ten high school students buzzing with nervous energy enter a room full of adults—who may be just as excited as they are.
The school is Team Englewood High School, located in one of the city's poorest communities, and the students are part of a group that will perform a local spinoff performance of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States in the spring.
"If you don't have that sense of how things have changed in the past, it would be very easy to despair about the present," says Anthony Arnove, co-editor, along with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People's History of the United States. in that book, Arnove helped organize the words of historical figures, rebels and visionaries—readings that keenly showed how voices from the past can and do speak directly to the present.
Arnove is also co-director (with Howard Zinn and Chris Moore) of The People Speak.
(Video courtesy of The Nation magazine)
Photos: The People Speak, Live!
TimeOut Chicago
http://timeoutchicago.com/things-to-do/chicago-blog/15106019/the-people-...
Johnny B talks to Director/Producer Chris Moore about his documentary "The People Speak"
WGN Chicago
http://www.wgnradio.com/shows/brandmeier/wgnam-brandmeier-morning-daywat...
Matt Damon leads an evening of left-leaning prose at Metro
Chicago Tribune: The Theater Loop
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/theaterloop/ct-ent-0...
Kevin Coval On "The People Speak," Howard Zinn, and why the time for change is now
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/19/kevin-coval-the-people-speak_n_...
Matt Damon and Lupe Fiasco bring "The People's History" to Chicago students
WBEZ Chicago
http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/2012-02-02/matt-damon-and-lupe-fias...
Matt Damon visits school in Englewood: Actor preps kids for project inspired by the progressive historian Howard Zinn
WBEZ Chicago
http://www.wbez.org/story/matt-damon-visits-school-englewood-96006
