Crossing Fences: Homewood
Homewood Voices features first-person reflections from thirteen men as collected by seventeen boys. Project activities were conducted in collaboration with the YMCA Lighthouse Project at Pittsburgh Westinghouse 6-12 in Homewood.
Crossing Fences: Hazelwood
Hazelwood Voices features first-person reflections from eleven men as collected by twelve boys. Project activities were conducted in collaboration with Center of Life at Keystone Church of Hazelwood. Listen below for each man’s story as well as reflections from the interviewers.
Crossing Fences: Hill District
Hill District Voices features first-person reflections from twelve men as collected by six boys. Project activities were conducted in collaboration with University Prep at Pittsburgh Milliones 6-12 in the Hill District.
Crossing Fences — A Community Celebration
In Summer 2012, SLB convened groups of African American male students in Homewood, Hazelwood and the Hill District. While learning about digital audio recording, each group also spent time discussing attributes of male role models and identifying African American men with a connection to their community that could be interviewed. With support as needed, students then arranged, conducted and edited these interviews. The results were published in Homewood Voices, Hazelwood Voices and Hill District Voices, each a full-color book (with CD) with 1,000 copies distributed throughout the community.