Share Your Story

Submit your Video

  1. Identify a civil rights issue or project in your school or community.
  2. Submit your original writing (prose or poetry) or make a video using a smartphone or a camcorder talking about the issue. Be sure to:
    • Emphasize youth perspective and youth voice
    • Your video can be 1-2 minutes or longer, it’s generally a good rule to break anything longer than 10 -minutes into sections
  3. Upload your video to YouTube or Vimeo. Here are instructions on uploading your video to either platform.
  4. Submit your link to us via the form below. Include the following:
    • Your e-mail address (*required)
    • If video link, provide topic and (3-5 sentences) why it is important to you/intro summary.  If an original written submission include text here (*required)
    • First and last name/initial & age (optional)
  5. We will respond within one week to give our approval or ask for additional information. We cannot guarantee that all videos will be put on the website.

    Your Email (required)

    Your Message, be sure to include:
    1) Topic/Summary in 3-5 sentences why is this important to you (required)
    2) Link to video (required)
    3) First/last name and/or initial and age (optional)

     

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    The Youth Civil Rights Academy aligns itself with the University of Michigan's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives and values.
    More can be found at https://diversity.umich.edu
    Diversity respects the wide range and variety of individuals and issues; equity refers to the fairness of giving voice to concerns that affect civil and human rights; and inclusion provides opportunity for participation in issues that affect these rights.

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