[Peace] Prairie Grassroots tomorrow 10AM on WEFT 90.1FM and www.weft.org

[Lori A. Serb]

Prairie Grassroots (every 4th and alternating 5th Sundays 10A-11A on  
90.1FM)
Amplifying the voices of local community members working at the  
grassroots level

Live interview with Ruth Nicole Brown about the SOLHOT exhibit and her  
new book “Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip Hop Feminist  
Pedagogy”

The exhibition "Reflections of Black Girlhood: Necessary Truths"  
features works created over the past three years by participants in  
the Saving Our Lives Hearing Our Truths outreach program (SOLHOT).  
Open now through Feb. 27 at Krannert Art Museum (500 E. Peabody Drive,  
Champaign)

Hope you can tune in either by radio 90.1FM or on the web:  
www.weft.org tomorrow morning 10AM. Drop me a line with your comments  
after the show.

Lori

A little more background about SOLHOT:

SOLHOT is an experience for and about black girls living and learning  
in Central Illinois co-founded and led by Ruth Nicole Brown, a U. of  
I. professor of gender and women’s studies and of educational policy  
studies at the University of Illinois. SOLHOT provides a space for  
black girls to explore their experiences and what it means to be  
young, black and female in today’s society.

SOLHOT encourages black girls to create spaces of their own –  
physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually – to express who they  
are and desire to be through discussion, song, storytelling, dance,  
photography, poetry, video and other media.

A central goal of the program is to document the lived realities of  
black girls for the purpose of creating institutional and relational  
mechanisms of accountability that affirm their worth.

“SOLHOT is a space of giving ourselves the permission to dream, of  
documenting those dreams in text, image and sound, and sharing those  
dreams unapologetically with the world... nothing more, nothing less,”  
said Candy Taaffe, a doctoral student in educational policy studies  
and one of the organizers of the project.