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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…
Jon Fortt
Mar 2, 2022
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February 2022
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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Feb 1, 2022
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January 2022
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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Jan 24, 2022
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What Does It Mean To Celebrate MLK in 2022?
Reconsidering an Icon in the Face of Modern Challenges
Jon Fortt
Jan 12, 2022
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What Does It Mean To Celebrate MLK in 2022?
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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…
Jon Fortt
Oct 11, 2021
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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…
Jon Fortt
Sep 27, 2021
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Our Stories Drive Change: Black Entrepreneurs in D.C., and Johns Hopkins Sibley's Ward Infinity
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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…
Jon Fortt
Sep 6, 2021
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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…
Jon Fortt
Aug 21, 2021
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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…
Jon Fortt
Aug 8, 2021
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July 2021
A Black History Conference, And A Gut Check
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…
Jon Fortt
Jul 26, 2021
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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…
Jon Fortt
Jul 12, 2021
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This Land Is My Land, This Land Is Your Land*
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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…
Jon Fortt
Jun 28, 2021
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