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Youth Media Workshop Empowering economically
diverse African-American
youth from public schools to make media and social change
 Youth
Media Workshop partners with public schools in Champaign-Urbana,
Illinois, to teach African-American youth how to make radio and
television documentaries that link their generation, the hip-hop
generation, to the civil rights and black power generations.
Students are taught by a multi-racial team of media
professionals from the public broadcasting station WILL
AM-FM-TV, scholars and journalism students from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and local teachers and
community leaders.
Youth Media Workshop is co-directed by William Patterson, Ph.D.,
from the U of I African American Cultural Center and Kimberlie
Kranich of WILL AM-FM-TV.
What Students Learn
Students in the Youth Media Workshop learn to:
- conduct library research;
- interview their families, peers and community members;
- professionally edit audio and video into radio and TV
programs;
- present their findings at public events and conferences;
- think analytically, problem solve and lead group
discussions with their peers;
- contribute research to the field of youth media and
community-based archiving.
The long-term goal of the workshop is for young people to
understand the significance of their history in order to pass it
on to future generations to build better communities, to build
stronger points of self-esteem and stronger identities and to be
agents for change in society and mass media.
Partners
Champaign Unit 4 School District
Urbana Unit 116 School District
Franklin Middle School
Edison Middle School
Urbana High School
University of Illinois African American Cultural Center
University of Illinois College of Communications
University of Illinois College of Education
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Youth Media Workshop Wins
Award for Excellence
What are the students learning that complements what they learn
in school?
Hip-Hop
Documentary: A Local Response (May 2007)
Hip Hop Town Hall
(March 2007)
YMW 2005-2006
YMW Documentaries
And the Beat Goes On: The Spirit in the
Legacy of the Douglass Center Drum Corps
(2006)
More Than a Bus Ride (2005)
Our Journey: Stories
of School Desegregation and Community in Champaign-Urbana
(2004)
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