John Legend helped students write moving poems about what it means to be a man

Last week, students at Centennial High School in Columbus, Ohio, attended an hourlong assembly they’ll never forget.

The lucky high schoolers got to watch John Legend play his hit songs “Love Me Now” and “All of Me” in their own gym. The unique performance was part of a program called Axe Senior Orientation, which brought Legend and the poet Carlos Andrés Gómez to the school to mentor three students and help them develop artistic pieces that challenge what it means to be masculine. 

The pilot program was the brainchild of Axe, the personal care line once best known for its macho advertising. But since the launch of its Find Your Magic campaign last year, the company has worked to tear down harmful stereotypes about what it means to be a man — and it wants to increasingly take that conversation to young people.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | John Legend helped students write moving poems about what it means to be a man