We’re so excited to share this fabulous news! New Mythos Grant winner and Pacifica alumnus, Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D. and his non-profit organization, Alchemy, Inc., has been honored at the White House with the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award!
First Lady, Michelle Obama, presented Kwame with this distinguished award for his inspirational and successful work of bringing myth and drumming to urban settings. Opus sends heartfelt congratulations to Kwame for this wonderful achievement! For more on this story, please click here to read an interview with Kwame himself.
Don’t forget to read too about the extraordinary work Kwame has been able to accomplish through the 2010 New Mythos Research Grant awarded to him by Opus Archives: Myth, Mentoring, Initiation, and the Prima Materia: A Black, Blacker than Black. Voices of Urban Male Adolescent Youth.
