Stop The Hate: Youth Sing Out
Roots of American Music
In partnership with Roots of American Music and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Maltz Museum celebrates the voices of young people standing up to bias and bigotry through the annual Stop the Hate® Youth Sing Out contest.
During the 2023-24 school year, 1,419 students from 67 classrooms among 12 schools worked collaboratively to pen and perform their own songs, using their voices to advocate for change. Stop the Hate®, Youth Sing Out is an arts-integrated learning initiative that invites students to share their thoughts on discrimination and injustice. Through the Maltz Museum’s Stop the Hate tour, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Power of Music in Protest online experience, and the guidance of Roots of American Music teaching artists, the annual program sharpens written and oral language skills while fostering a deeper understanding of historic and contemporary human rights events. Classes compete to win anti-bias education grants for their schools. Congratulations to all of the participants for using your voices for good!
During the 2024-25 school year ROOTS has partnered with Suma Recording Studio to record the student’s songs for the Youth Sing Out competition.
Stop the Hate Youth Sing Out program is being present in these schools through the end of this semester.
- Brush High School
- Milkovich Middle School
- RB Chamberlin Middle School
- Mayfield High School
- East Cleveland School
- Cleveland School of Science
- Collinwood High SchoolList Item
- Shaw High School
- Garfield Middle School
- Harding Middle School
- Anton Grdina Middle School
- Midview High School
- Hudson Middle School
- Bolich Middle School
- Roberts Middle School
Provided Songwriting Artists for the Stop the Hate Youth Sing Out Program in partnership with the Maltz Museum to middle and high school students across 12 northeast Ohio schools serving:
Provided Songwriting Artists for Stop the Hate: Youth Sign Out!, a program in partnership with the Maltz Museum to middle and high school students across 19 northeast Ohio schools serving:
List of Winners and Runner-Ups
Click below to listen to the music from the Stop The Hate, Youth Sing Out initiative