Oct. 27, 2017: YMP's Maisie Brown Gives TEDxWomen Talk
Maisie Brown attended the summer 2016 Youth Media Project, then gave a TEDxWomenJackson talk about it in October 2016. The Jim Hill High School student was 15 when she did this talk. She is also a student journalist in the summer 2017 YMP session.
YMP Student Wins 2017 Mississippi Scholastic
Gold Key Award for Column
YMP summer 2016 and 2017 student journalist August Harp of Murrah High School won a Mississippi Scholastic Writing Gold Key Award for his powerful column that first appeared on YMP's student journalism site, jxnpulse.com. In "Ego and the Fear of Losing," he wrote about the equity differences between his his soccer teams, one at his majority-black high school and the other a more privileged and whiter team with far more resources. He wrote:
"To truly grasp the differences between them, you must first understand these simple facts. Murrah has 1,600 students: 93.52 percent of the school is African American, and 5.30 percent are white students. Fifteen of the 18 players on my select team are white, while I am one of two white boys on the Murrah soccer team, which consists of 22 players. Many of my select teammates attend private schools and could afford La Bernardin every meal, while most of my high school teammates cannot afford school lunch."
"To truly grasp the differences between them, you must first understand these simple facts. Murrah has 1,600 students: 93.52 percent of the school is African American, and 5.30 percent are white students. Fifteen of the 18 players on my select team are white, while I am one of two white boys on the Murrah soccer team, which consists of 22 players. Many of my select teammates attend private schools and could afford La Bernardin every meal, while most of my high school teammates cannot afford school lunch."
April 17, 2017: Jackson Youth Mayoral Forum
All three network newscasts in Jackson, Miss., covered the Youth Media Project's Youth Mayoral Forum held on April 17, 2017, in collaboration with the Jackson Council PTA's student ambassadors. YMP student Maisie Brown, 15, moderated the forum, and two students from the summer 16 session and two Spring 2017 Wingfield students comprised the on-stage media panel. The Clarion-Ledger featured the forum on its front page the next day, and the Jackson Free Press ran a story as well.
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And WLBT:
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YMP students made the cover of The Clarion-Ledger
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April 9, 2017: YMP Student Doc Wins Film Festival Award
In summer 2016, a team of YMP students directed, shot and edited a short documentary on the effect HB 1523 on young people in the state. They later submitted it to the Crossroads Film Festival, where it screened in April 2017, winning a Lagniappe Award. Two students, Maggie Jefferis and Kelsee Ford, were invited to be part of the Women's Filmmaker Panel at the festival.
