Archive - The Black Experience in America: The Course by Jon Fortt

Sharing My Storytelling With the Toolmakers: The Black Experience & Adobe

As part of Black History Month this year, I had the opportunity to talk about The Black Experience in America: The Course with a group of people whose…

Mar 2, 2022 •

February 2022

Kicking Off Black History Month 2022

To download free social media images to celebrate Black history, click here.

Feb 1, 2022 •

January 2022

Share This Fun, Free Way to Celebrate Black History

Download original images from The Black Experience catalog for your social profiles

Jan 24, 2022 •

What Does It Mean To Celebrate MLK in 2022?

Reconsidering an Icon in the Face of Modern Challenges

Jan 12, 2022 •

October 2021

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…

Oct 11, 2021 •

September 2021

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…

Sep 27, 2021 •

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…

Sep 6, 2021 •

August 2021

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…

Aug 21, 2021 •

Masks, Black Achievement and Mental Health

The mental health of the high-achieving is getting attention lately, as first Naomi Osaka and then Simone Biles stepped back from big competitive…

Aug 8, 2021 •

July 2021

A Black History Conference, And A Gut Check

Above: A screenshot from the opening of the Teaching Black History Conference

Jul 26, 2021 •

This Land Is My Land, This Land Is Your Land*

A couple of years back, before I had the spark of an idea to create The Black Experience In America: The Course, I spent a few months doing some…

Jul 12, 2021 •

June 2021

Yasuke, Anime, and the Power of Self Definition

My oldest son turned 13 last week, and I was hunting for something to get him (besides the smartphone my wife and I will be bankrolling). And then…

Jun 28, 2021 •

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