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Conard High School students find power, offer hope in retelling of Chieftains renaming debate by Christopher Arnott

Students at Conard High School in West Hartford used a theater project to revisit a controversy that roiled the school just five years ago, when the Conard sports team name and mascot was challenged as being racist. The script for "The Chieftain Project" was created from verbatim transcripts from dozens of interviews with key participants in the debate.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:34PM on May 24, 2021

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