Growing up in a predominantly black neighborhood where the dreams were big but, the opportunities to achieve them were few, there was always a lingering melancholic …show more content…
I also worked in collaboration with student activists at Rutgers University (Newark), helping spread the word among my school's student body whenever projects were being facilitated on their campus or around the city. As part of a Black Arts Movement (BAM) class, we put on a performance involving different forms of media, visual art, dance, poetry, skits, etc; all of them representing our struggles as POC, and comparing and contrasting the experiences of our ancestors to our