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Arming Our Children: Creativity Over Control

Arming Our Children: Creativity Over Control

Update: 2025-09-09
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While politicians push federal funding to arm teachers, Chris Chatmon and Kingmakers of Oakland (KOO) are arming Black children with something far more powerful: creativity, culture, and community. In this deeply moving conversation, Chris returns to discuss how creative expression becomes resistance, why drumming circles counter deficit narratives, and how his organization builds what children need while others tear systems down. From table drums made to deepen intersectional connections to animation studios producing counter-narratives, this is education as liberation—and it's happening right now in Oakland.

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Arming Our Children: Creativity Over Control

Arming Our Children: Creativity Over Control

Dr. David J. Johns & Thomas Cunningham IV