Jason Taylor Foundation

In time for the start of spring football practice, Broward County Public School and the Jason Taylor Foundation announced a partnership in an effort to keep athletes safe amid the COVID pandemic. Each high school in the county’s athletics association will get 100 CAGEMASKS for its team. The mask is a plastic shield attached to the player’s helmet, allowing...

This weekend, the Louder Than a Bomb Florida Poetry competition comes to an end for 2021 with the final rounds taking place at Florida Memorial University. Over the past month, more than 200 student poets have competed on a virtual platform, using Zoom to connect. It’s the same strategy the group used last year, when the pandemic first hit. “We...

NBC 6 anchor Constance Jones takes is inside the popular event that is drawing in talented youths from across the state this weekend.

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The Jason Taylor Foundation kicked off its free, weekly poetry workshops today. They call it The Lab, and we saw a mixture of poetry slam veterans and rookies.

The Jason Taylor Foundation kicked off its free, weekly poetry workshops today. They call it The Lab, and we saw a mixture of poetry slam veterans and rookies. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports.

This documentary chronicles that journey through the progression of the festival and it’s preparation, from the conception of the first words of the poem to the powerful stage performances.

Moments before four Miami Dolphins players took a knee during the National Anthem on September 11, 2016, safety Michael Thomas says he was “nervous as hell.”

Miami Dolphins legend Jason Taylor and a few of his friends held the Jason Taylor Foundation’s annual “Cool Gear for the School Year” event Monday.

As trends go, high school poetry clubs are hot. Last weekend, 36 schools competed in the Louder Than a Bomb poetry competition at Nova Southeastern University, sponsored by Blue Apple Poetry and the Jason Taylor Foundation.

Louder Than A Bomb (LTAB) was founded in 2001, through the Young Chicago Authors, by Kevin Coval (YCA Artistic Director) and Anna West.

Witness the team finals from top youth poets in Florida compete during a cutting edge event – the Louder Than a Bomb Florida Poetry Festival.

The individual finals for Florida’s “Louder Than a Bomb” youth poetry contest will take place Thursday night at Nova Southeastern University.

They have names like the Standing Stanzas of Piper High, the Viking Freedom Writers from Norland High School, and they are setting new standards of cool.

Louder Than a Bomb Florida is a festival featuring poetry bouts, workshops, exhibits, and ultimately the crowning of Florida’s top youth poetry team.