DC Teen & "Man of Strength" Odinga Johnson

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pmcgann737
April 30, 2008

Watch Odinga Johnson, a graduating senior at Washington, DC's Coolidge High School speak about how Men Can Stop Rape's Men of Strength Club has helped change his perspective of what it means to be a "man of strength" and how he plans to use that strength to prevent violence against women.
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ODINGA JOHNSON
FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACTIVIST AWARD
MEN OF STRENGTH CLUB MEMBER
COOLIDGE PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL, WASHINGTON, DC

Men Can Stop Rape honored Odinga as well as two other MOST Club members on April 29, 2008 at our Ninth Annual Men of Strength Awards, held at Washington, DC's National Press Club. Odinga is the recipient of the Frederick Douglass Activist Award and a $1,000 educational grant to be used for his first year in college.

Men Can Stop Rape's MEN OF STRENGTH (MOST) CLUB, considered as the premier primary prevention program for mobilizing high school and college men to prevent sexual and dating violence, has sites in every Washington, DC public high school, as well as sites in California, New York City, and North Carolina.

ABOUT ODINGA:
For many, the prospect of activism comes from an eye-opening experience. Odinga Johnson's eyes of action were opened during a trip to Ghana. Confronted with youth his age who worked two jobs to survive and still went to school, Odinga took it upon himself to inform his peers back in the States about what he saw. His Ghana experience and others like it sharpened Odinga's commitment to justice at home.

Acutely aware of the media's role in pushing attitudes of misogyny on the Black male community, especially through hip hop music, he is taking steps to use photography to show how there can be beauty within the hip hop community when there is respect between genders. He also hopes to use his photographic art to teach respect towards others.

Odinga says, "I act for and against many things in our society, but mostly towards the lack of respect of women in the African American population, particularly in the hip hop community."

Odinga's ability to translate his keen perceptions into action make him a model "man of strength."

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