The Black Experience in America: The Course by Jon Fortt

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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…
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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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Download original images from The Black Experience catalog for your social profiles
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Reconsidering an Icon in the Face of Modern Challenges
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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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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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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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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 mental health of the high-achieving is getting attention lately, as first Naomi Osaka and then Simone Biles stepped back from big competitive…
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Above: A screenshot from the opening of the Teaching Black History Conference Friday I had the privilege of presenting a session called “Tech Tools and…
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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…
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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…
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