A total of 32 seventh and eighth grade students at Brown recently participated in the “Festival of Lights” Essay Contest. The contest was sponsored by the Historic Westside Cultural Arts Council. The goal of the council is to promote native and local arts and culture from within the Historic Westside Community. This is accomplished by mentoring, training, […]
Three Brown Middle Schools students, Benjamin Leverette, Kamon Baker, and R’Daizyja Bell, recently submitted posters for the Clark-Atlanta University W.E.B DuBois Commemorative Symposium. The year 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, and the young artists celebrated his life and scholarship through their art. Each students’ artwork was […]
Recently, award winning poet and Inman Middle School student, Clarissa Mullig, took a minute to reflect on her journey as a poet. She describes her journey and documents the inspiration behind her poem, “I Watch,” below. “I Watch” was named First Honorable Mention winner in the Poetry Society of Virginia’s 2011 National Student Poetry Contest. “I started […]