Storytelling & Collective Resilience by Emily DeVoe https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj IB Language & Literature Unit en-us 2020-07-30 17:45:12 UTC 2026-02-23 17:03:06 UTC hello@padlet.com Areas of Exploration: edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027305 Readers, writers, and texts
  1. Why and how do we study language and literature?
  2. How are we affected by texts in various ways?
  3. In what ways is meaning constructed, expressed and discovered?
  4. How does language use vary amongst text types, and amongst literary forms?
  5. How does the structure or style of a text affect meaning?
  6. How do texts offer insights and challenges?

Time and space
  1. How important is cultural or historical context to the production and reception of a text?
  2. How do we approach texts from different times and cultures to our own?
  3. To what extent do texts offer insight into another culture?
  4. How does the meaning and impact of a text change over time?
  5. How do texts reflect, represent or form a part of cultural practices?
  6. How does language represent social distinctions and identities?
]]> 2020-07-30 17:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027305 Guiding Concepts / Lines of Inquiry edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027308 Identity
Creativity
Culture
Perspective
Representation]]> 2020-07-30 17:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027308 Global Issues edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027309 Internal & external freedom
Crime, criminal, and punishment
Protest & revolution
Beauty, creativity, joy]]> 2020-07-30 17:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027309 To Consider: edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027311 "What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we love black culture?” (Amandla Stenberg, 2015)
Juxtaposition of Google's promotional Black History Month "most searched" video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyiautg41h8) with this art video by Arthur Jafa.]]> 2020-07-30 17:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027311 Beloved by Toni Morrison edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027312 This novel by Toni Morrison will be the core text for this unit, supplemented by interviews with the author. ]]> 2020-07-30 17:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027312 Kendrick Lamar edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027314 Dave Chappelle interviews Kendrick Lamar
Existentially Dope, an essay about DAMN. by Devon Johnson
The Heart Part 5 video]]> 2020-07-30 17:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027314 1619 Project & pieces by Nikole Hannah-Jones edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027316 Podcast link
Response/challenge to the 1619 Project, particularly about claims related to the Revolutionary War: link to article
It's Time for Reparations article & visuals]]> 2020-07-30 17:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027316 Ta-Nehisi Coates edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027317 Excerpts from "The Case for Reparations" and Between the World and Me
Coates' opening statement in House hearings on reparations
Mitch McConnell's statement the day before the Congressional Hearings]]> 2020-07-30 17:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027317 Visual Art edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027318 Kara Walker, Simone Leigh, and others!
Black Contemporary Art
The Utterly Original Bill Traylor
Jacob Lawrence
Brazilian Art (and the muzzled figure)
Kerry James Marshall
Derrick Adams]]> 2020-07-30 17:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027318 Thinking Ahead to Assessments edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027319 - In this unit, students will practice close reading skills using a variety of genres, developing skills they will need for Paper 1.
- There are strong links between Beloved and our other works that can be developed in Paper 2 (e.g. the issue of internal & external freedom in The Thief and the Dogs, and literature as resilience in the poetry of Sipho Sepamla)]]> 2020-07-30 17:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027319 Learning Engagements & Learner Portfolio Activities edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027320 -Webquest to help students explore some of the many contextual layers of Beloved, including the Fugitive Slave Act
-Journal responses to each piece studied
-Graphic organizer to facilitate connections among the texts and develop understanding of intertextuality
-Creative writing: pastiche (and follow-up discussion around the concept of transformation)
- Students might interview various adults in their lives about the issue of beauty and freedom - internal freedom to be open to beauty despite the horrors of life (Agata Zolkos)]]> 2020-07-30 17:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666027320 Alvin Ailey's "Revelations" edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666038165 2020-07-30 18:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666038165 Podcasts: Seeing White, Revisionist History, White Fragility edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666038353 Scene on Radio's Seeing White series
White Fragility podcast/interview
Counterargument to White Fragility: article

Revisionist History episode: Miss Buchanan's Period of Adjustment]]> 2020-07-30 18:01:32 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666038353 Excerpts from The Black Book jrutigliano https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666051779 2020-07-30 18:20:00 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666051779 Dr. Bettina Love on Joy & Hush Harbors jrutigliano https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666052258 There is no liberation without JOY
(time to reframe the narrative!)
6 minute clip from interview]]> 2020-07-30 18:20:45 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/666052258 Harriet Tubman edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/674549121 Following Harriet podcast: topics include activism, women's rights, resilience
Michael Rosato's Harriet Tubman mural

Songs from Harriet film (overlaps with spirituals, conceptual & historical contexts):
Stand Up: https://youtu.be/sn19xvfoXvk & https://youtu.be/g3HICKj-4Zs
Goodbye Song: https://youtu.be/rOmjkPXNYGI


]]> 2020-08-10 17:11:41 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/674549121 Where Do We Go From Here? edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/677503058 A powerful panel of Black leaders discuss America's past, present, and future through the lens of George Floyd's murder and the resulting protests.]]> 2020-08-12 17:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/677503058 The Middle Passage by Tom Feelings edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/701789379 White Ships / Black Cargo

complementary line from poet, Adrienne Rich: "This is the oppressor's language yet I need it to talk to you"]]> 2020-08-27 04:23:13 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/701789379 "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/836001661 Faulkner as inspiration for Morrison
Concept of internal/external freedom
Morality]]> 2020-10-16 15:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/836001661 Beyonce edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/856604702 Brown Skin Girl music video
Black is King, a film by Beyonce (trailer)
Love Drought + Sandcastles, live at 2017 Grammys

Articles about Beyonce's work
THINK article about colorism and inclusion
Article by bell hooks on Beyonce's Lemonade]]> 2020-10-23 17:04:58 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/856604702 Black Futures edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1030143996 Editors Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have said repeatedly in interviews that they were inspired by Toni Morrison's Black Book. It looks at contemporary Black culture and includes art, photos, fashion, essays, recipes, playlists, screenshots of tweets from "Black Twitter" and so much more! A great complement for the heavy discussions about race in America because it encapsulates so much JOY and the power of creation in response to trauma. It is over 500 pages from over 150 contributors.]]> 2020-12-18 02:49:37 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1030143996 OnBeing by Krista Tippett: Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menaken nvaughan2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032188065 Link to the podcast page with transcript]]> 2020-12-18 18:16:10 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032188065 Demetrius Noble #BLM Grounding Exercise nvaughan2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032267846 2020-12-18 18:38:00 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032267846 Cathy Park Hong on Culture, Art, and Manipulation of English from Minor Feelings nvaughan2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032280813 2020-12-18 18:40:58 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032280813 Isis tha Saviour: motherhood and mass incarceration nvaughan2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032297593 2020-12-18 18:45:49 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032297593 Isis tha Saviour "Ain't I the Woman" nvaughan2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032299771 2020-12-18 18:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032299771 Marking Time by Nicole Fleetwood nvaughan2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032330571 New York Times Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/arts/design/marking-time-review-moma-ps1.html]]> 2020-12-18 18:55:33 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032330571 NPR CodeSwitch "What About Your Friends" nvaughan2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032346423 2020-12-18 19:00:19 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032346423 Kimberly Drew's (editor of Black Futures) Black Contemporary Art Tumblr nvaughan2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032350426 2020-12-18 19:01:38 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032350426 From So You Wanna Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo on the N-word nvaughan2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032384472 "And even if people of color wanted to force someone to stop, we have very little power to do so. The important question for [non-black] people is, why would a well-meaning person want to say these words in the first place? Why would you want to invoke that pain that you are privileged enough to not be negatively impacted by the legacy of racial oppression that these words helped create?" (140)]]> 2020-12-18 19:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032384472 Resmaa Menakem: My Grandmother's Hands jrutigliano https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032402103 Menakem explains generational trauma-that every African American carries. The book discusses in depth, how white people can raise their awareness of their reactions to black bodies, and how white folks can learn to control their own bodies/reactions while in the presence of black folx. KEY: The Five Anchors to calming your body:
Anchor 1. Settle: calm, soothe the mind.
Anchor 2. Notice: what  are the sensations, emotions without reacting to them 
Anchor 3. Accept the discomfort and sit with it.
Anchor 4. Stay present  in the moment
Anchor 5. Discharge the extra energy
]]> 2020-12-18 19:17:56 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032402103 "If you can only be tall because somebody else is on their knees..." Toni Morrison nvaughan2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032418546 2020-12-18 19:23:11 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032418546 Toni Morrison and the White Gaze nvaughan2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032429431 2020-12-18 19:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032429431 Toni Morrison 1987 Interview nvaughan2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032431941 The passage she reads is midway through Chapter 26 ("anybody white could take your whole self...")
She talks about so many of her many-layered influences: Margaret Garner, women/motherhood, choice (TATD connection!), denial of humanity, the "rationale for the ghost," the past, personal/racial/national history, black "self-flagellation," her position as a famous author, etc.
]]> 2020-12-18 19:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032431941 Toni Morrison and Junot Diaz NY Public Library nvaughan2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032434570 32:00: Junot introduces the idea of animals and the “thin line between animal and human” 
She talks about Paul and the Chicken (spoiler alert) 
38:30: moves into her motivation, inspiration for Beloved--starts with the “milking” of Sethe by schoolteacher
Margaret Garner

1:08:00 in the questions portion
Addresses clarifying the history of race within United States and literature…
Postulates that the black men who previously wrote and became famous were proliferated based on their disdain of white people. 
She wants people to remember that there was a time before this ability to speak out against racism when racism and self-hate could eat away and kill people. 

1:14:00
Addresses storytelling and the supernatural in her family

]]> 2020-12-18 19:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032434570 Black Pain is Not for Profit by Rene Matic nvaughan2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032581106 2020-12-18 20:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032581106 The Black Genius Joint by Nikole Hannah-Jones nvaughan2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032584959 I love this because it is good to see writers like her and Ta-Nehisi Coates "let their hair down" after reading and listening to their pieces.]]> 2020-12-18 20:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032584959 The #OptimisticChallenge: Decisive Black Joy by Jasmine Johnson nvaughan2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032588063 Acknowledgement of the body and movement and the way dance is an expression to overcome.]]> 2020-12-18 20:27:15 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1032588063 Bettina Love on her visit to Ghana and on the term "grit." jrutigliano https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1049106548 Love reflects on her visit to Slave departure point in Ghana and Black Resilience. She explains the degrading nuances of "grit."]]> 2021-01-02 20:37:13 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1049106548 Ruth Wilson Gilmore resources nvaughan2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1049211018 New York Times profile. A long read, but it digs into some of the blanketed ideas that people have about prison reform and also dispels and digs deeper into some of the ideas that 13th hints at or generalizes. 

This is also a talk that she did with Naomi Murakawa this summer who wrote a book premised on the liberal creation of prisons. 

There is also an interview that she did with Democracy Now this summer about the parallels between the carceral state and COVID's impact in the US. 
]]> 2021-01-03 00:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1049211018 The Underground Railroad in Ohio jrutigliano https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1049985394 2021-01-03 15:57:22 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1049985394 "Declaration" by Tracy K. Smith edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1050348783 text of the poem created using the erasure technique, whittling down the Declaration of Independence to a statement about the process of erasure in the US]]> 2021-01-03 22:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1050348783 New California Laws on policing, incarceration and slavery reparations kanthony22 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1061435966 2021-01-06 23:54:11 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1061435966 Genealogy, Modern Day Slavery, Reparations edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1068818076 connections to storytelling, identity, physical/mental freedom]]> 2021-01-08 21:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1068818076 Origins & Mis/Re-interpretations of #blacklivesmatter edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1076826145 2021-01-12 02:26:54 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1076826145 Spirituals jrutigliano https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1080970702 The words of spirituals were a system of codes of communication between slaves.

Connection: Songs from Harriet film (overlaps with spirituals, conceptual & historical contexts):
Stand Up: https://youtu.be/sn19xvfoXvk & https://youtu.be/g3HICKj-4Zs
Goodbye Song: https://youtu.be/rOmjkPXNYGI
]]> 2021-01-12 22:32:22 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1080970702 The Clotilda jrutigliano https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1107754200 The remains of the last slave ship that came to America have been found. In 1860, the schooner Clotilda brought 110 Africans to U.S. shores, decades after it was illegal to import slaves into the country. The wreckage of the boat was discovered in Alabama’s Mobile River.]]> 2021-01-20 21:08:54 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1107754200 Origins of American Music edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1133654917 1619 Podcast Episode 3
Congo Square in New Orleans: video / Afropunk article]]> 2021-01-27 20:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1133654917 Black Art documentary edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1189136569 2021-02-10 18:51:24 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1189136569 Collective Resilience: Buddhist community response to violence edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1499391528 2021-05-06 17:42:21 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1499391528 "Nada" by Lido Pimienta edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1562658368 Perspective from Colombia]]> 2021-05-26 19:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1562658368 Should Beloved be banned? Controversy plays a role in Virginia politics edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1852060973 Washington Post article
New York Times article]]> 2021-10-28 17:42:48 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/1852060973 "Black Privilege" slam poem edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/2193493074 2022-05-20 20:37:33 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/2193493074 Kendrick Lamar's 2018 Grammy Performance nvaughan2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/2446031497 Watch on YouTube]]> 2023-01-16 20:28:44 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/2446031497 Kendrick Lamar 2022 New York Times feature nvaughan2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/2446036898 2023-01-16 20:36:13 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/2446036898 Beyonce's Grammys Tribute to African Diaspora & Spirituality edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/2461808091 2023-01-30 17:35:32 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/2461808091 Beyonce & Goddess Imagery edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/2463710415 2023-01-31 21:28:10 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/2463710415 Beyonce & Motherhood edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/2463710963 2023-01-31 21:28:55 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/2463710963 Beyonce's Lemonade: Dissect Podcast edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/2475506190 This season dissects Beyonce's visual album over 11 episodes, with supporting visual guides. Connections to the themes and imagery of Beloved, including: the way the past & present are intertwined, the lasting impact of slavery, folklore, motherhood, and more]]> 2023-02-09 19:07:05 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/2475506190 Charleston, South Carolina jrutigliano https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/2654810776 Coming to terms its past role in slavery. This is where a great percentage of slaves were processed before they were sent off to various states.]]> 2023-08-02 13:42:17 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/2654810776 Intertextuality & Storytelling: Sinners, Beyonce, Kendrick, Blues, Spirituals, and more! edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/3440168213 "some of our most popular Black artists are still contending with its ghosts, still clashing over the stories we’re telling about how we got to this moment and who helped us arrive."

]]> 2025-05-07 15:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/3440168213 Quilts & the Underground Railroad edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/3440576325 2025-05-07 21:59:04 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/3440576325 What stories do we tell about Black History? edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/3465266159 John McWhorter explores the stories told (and not told) at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC

]]> 2025-05-23 21:11:25 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/3465266159 Dave -- Black edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/3569316242 A British perspective

]]> 2025-09-04 17:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/3569316242 Intertextual Connections! edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/3771036076 In this NYTimes article, Wesley Morris (host of 1619 Episode 3) geeks out with an intertextual exploration of the movie Sinners, Cowboy Carter, Kendrick’s 2025 superbowl halftime show, minstrels, blues, and more!

]]> 2026-01-30 19:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/3771036076 Beyonce's Cowboy Carter Album edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/3771037241 2026-01-30 19:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/3771037241 The Fight Over History: Which Stories Get Told, and Why? edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/3775972683 Coverage by the NYTimes of the removal of a slavery exhibit in Philadelphia:

]]> 2026-02-03 20:59:51 UTC https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/3775972683 The Power of Storytelling (especially Morrison's) edevoe2 https://padlet.com/edevoe2/12qppqx0rfw15acj/wish/3798826147 from the NYTimes Magazine:

Toni Morrison Was a Master of the Unthinkable

What made her one of our greatest — and most dangerous — novelists was her belief that stories could contain what our minds couldn’t confront.

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