Young Gifted and Black, or YGB, is a youth performance ensemble based in Oakland. More than 50 performers — ranging in age from 6 to 18 — learn and memorize compilations of historical black poems and contemporary raps, which they perform around the Bay Area. Video: Anya Schultz Read more: ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/19/young-gifted-and-black-teaches-oakland-students-history-with-music/