NEWS & MEDIA

“Despite New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton’s prediction that public demonstrations over the Eric Garner and Ferguson Grand Jury decisions would ‘peter out,’ the protests are still going strong thanks, in part, to a generous contribution from musician John Legend and his wife model and food blogger Chrissy Teigen. The couple purchased a fleet of food trucks to serve up free food to hungry protesters in New York’s Lincoln Square…”

“BERKELEY, Calif. and WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Producing, tinkering, experimenting, making, performing, digitizing and creating are just a few forms of innovation proposed by fourteen nationally recognized recipients of a LRNG Innovation Challenge Grant from the National Writing Project (NWP). The LRNG Innovation Challenge is a new program sponsored in partnership with the MacArthur Foundation and John Legend’s Show Me Campaign…”

“‘It was a big revelation,’ the chart-topping musician tells THR. ‘My teacher made storytelling come alive for me and showed me that I could be a storyteller, too.’

Which explains why Legend, 35, is launching a program called LRNG (pronounced ‘learning’) — an offshoot of his 7-year-old anti-poverty Show Me Campaign — to help educators in New York City, and eventually throughout the country, develop tech-friendly teaching practices that make sense for 21st century students. Working in partnership with the National Writing Project, Legend’s latest initiative encourages educators to think in new ways about their jobs and sets up methods for them to stay connected to one another with mentoring and idea-sharing programs…”

“John Legend premiered his touching new music video today, serving up, not just his soulful standard, but a powerful message of change and a call to arms in the name of women. Legend’s place in the video is with the Kate Moss-type (his wife), but the ensuing vignettes paint intimate portraits of a movingly diverse host of women, shot from the point of the view of the mirrors they reflect in. Furthermore, the video’s homage to women of all stripes offers a chance to go beyond Dove-commerical activism, as Legend promotes the six-week campaign #OperationGirl Charity Challenge, a friendly competition to raise the most money between charities dedicated to empowering girls and women.”