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In Class with Carr

S E204: Andre Lee Ellis: "Plant Some Seeds With Our Youth and Watch What Grow!"

In Class with Carr

Knarrative

Society & Culture, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Empowerment, Education

4.9972 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Andre Lee Ellis started a garden in one of the worst areas in Milwaukee, WS and transformed the lives of black boys in the neighborhood. #WeGotThis! Journalist and Hunter College's James Aronson Award-winner James Causey brought Ellis's story to light. 

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. I need to do more I need to do better he is the founder of the we got this movement in Milwaukee

0:18.3

let me welcome to the show mr. Andre Lee Ellis hey Hey, what's happening?

0:24.0

What's happening?

0:25.0

I too sing America.

0:28.0

I am the darker brother.

0:30.0

They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, eat well, and grow strong.

0:38.0

Tomorrow, I'll be at the table when company comes.

0:42.8

Nobody will dare say to me eating the kitchen,

0:45.0

then besides, they'll see how beautiful I am

0:48.1

and be ashamed for I too am America.

0:51.6

That's Langston Hughes, but Andre Lie Ellis says on the block where I live I am

0:56.7

the change that needs to be. On the block where I live I'm helping to make the changes

1:01.6

that the people need to see.

1:04.0

Hello, Ms. Karen Hunter, and I'm honored to be here.

1:06.8

Man, when I heard about this story,

1:09.9

so there's a zip code in Milwaukee that Mr. Cauzy writes about.

1:14.2

It is supposed to be the worst zip code in the country to raise a black boy.

1:21.1

And tell me how you found Mr Lee Ellis, Andre Lee Ellis,

1:25.0

tell me how you found him Mr. Kause.

1:27.3

Well, first let me tell you about the zip code, 5306.

1:30.8

5306 I actually was born in that zip code and Andre Lie Ellis Garden is actually two blocks

1:38.4

away from where I grew up on 9th and Keith and it's where my parents rented when they first moved here after they got married and it's a zip code that's in transition.

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