Welcome to The Game Changers Project
We tell our own stories and help others tell theirs
2012 Game Changer Fellows Announced
Dec. 12, 2011 -- Today, the 2012 Game Changer Fellows were announced. After a national search process, the following candidates were selected from the many applications received. They will represent eight cities across the country as Game Changer Filmmaker Fellows and produce short films that reveal a higher narrative about being Black and male in America. Working with local non-profits in their cities, the fellows will lift up lesser-known truths about "game changers" in their community. Over the next year, they will all produce many micro-documentaries and narrative short films that inspire, educate, entertain, and offer a "call to action" for audiences everywhere to see a new possibility for Black male achievement in America. Congratulations GCP Fellows!
AAMI Boys Choir: Becoming ‘family’ and other life lessons
by James Robertson
May 2012
While sitting in the lobby of the Afro-American Music Institute (AAMI), along with my parents and siblings, registering my brother, Hezreel, for gospel and jazz piano lessons, Mrs. Pamela Johnson (Mrs. Pam), wife of Dr. James T. Johnson (Dr. J), as well as co-founder of the institute and founder of the AAMI Boys Choir, came out of her office and seeing all of us, said with a big-o-smile, in her warm Louisiana voice, “Would you young ‘mens’ like to join our boys choir?” After a period of silence (for my parents were concerned with adding another activity to our family’s already busy schedule), my mother finally responded, “When are rehearsals held?” Mrs. Pam replied, “Monday nights at seven.” My mother and father looked to me and my brothers and asked us if we were interested. We nodded yes, willing to give it a try. Looking into our eyes, Mrs. Pam said, with a warm smile, “You’re family now.”
