Afro Charities has launched its inaugural Journalism and Multimedia Fellowship program for Baltimore City high school students. This program encourages students to research and analyze the AFRO American Newspapers’ vast physical and digital archival collection, and to create new work inspired by it.

Through this program, students create written work, new media (such as audio or video), visual art, and/or performance art that recounts and reinterprets Baltimore history. Select students will have their work published in the AFRO and on its worldwide distribution platforms.

For this pilot program, we partnered with Leaders of Tomorrow Youth Center to work with 15 students from Baltimore’s Coppin Academy during the spring semester. Students applied to be part of the fellowship, and will receive stipends for their participation.

This program has been generously supported by the Bainum Family Foundation, The Reginald F. Lewis Foundation and the Greater Washington Community Foundation.

Special thanks to Coppin Academy teachers Mr. Hickey & Ms. Smith.