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Kicking Off Black History Month 2022
To download free social media images to celebrate Black history, click here. I spent the hours before Black History Month preparing for and executing an…
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Share This Fun, Free Way to Celebrate Black History
Download original images from The Black Experience catalog for your social profiles
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What Does It Mean To Celebrate MLK in 2022?
Reconsidering an Icon in the Face of Modern Challenges
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Watch Live: HBCUs and the Black Experience in Higher Education
Education is both a goal and a theme in The Black Experience in America: The Course. With that in mind, I’d like to invite you to the digital audience…
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Our Stories Drive Change: Black Entrepreneurs in D.C., and Johns Hopkins Sibley's Ward Infinity
The last full lesson in The Black Experience in America: The Course — and this material is for adults down to junior high — is called The Microscope…
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Bessie Smith, St. Louis Blues, and Breaking Convention
I was thinking about Bessie Smith today, because I’m working on a personal project and I need some inspiration. And as I was designing The Black…
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Race and the Truth Behind the Ugly Duckling
When I was growing up in Washington, D.C. in the '80s, identity — blackness — was a smorgasbord. Through eighth grade I went to mostly Black public…
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The Black Experience in America: The Course by Jon Fortt
The Black Experience in America: The Course by Jon Fortt
A newsletter extending The Course: a study of the ideas, people and events that have shaped the African-American experience.
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