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This week, journalist @jonfortt and pastor @DaveTieche launch Character Study at https://t.co/5gyLb5JN4I. Months in the making, the two friends developed a bundle of resources to help you engage with the #Bible through the stories of people. Sign up for the email list today!
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Just added Sojourner Truth & #MLK. At https://t.co/jkmyX4RewL, get free social media/email banners to celebrate Black history. Via @ForttMedia. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryISAmericanHistory #WomensRights #Feminism
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Take a closer look at Martin Luther King, Jr., and the resonance of his legacy. From @jonfortt: #MLKDay #MLK #BlackHistory #civilrights https://t.co/vdqYDXMHqP
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Reconsidering an Icon in the Face of Modern Challenges
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Jon Fortt
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At the macro level, the data uncovers stories that otherwise would have been ignored. At the micro level, digital video clarifies stories that would have been dismissed. #education #diversity #data #storytelling @ForttMedia https://t.co/wAM5b10x7g
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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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"This, I believe, is part of the universal importance of the Black experience as part of the American experience: As the nation struggles to emerge from a pandemic, we know our creativity can overcome hardship — even when it’s self-imposed." @ForttMedia
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I was thinking about Bessie Smith today, because I’m working on a personal project and I need some inspiration.
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Jon Fortt
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"The negative countercurrents had their roots in false racial narratives about Black people — no matter that some of those narratives were now amplified in our own community. What would I believe? What would I internalize?" @ForttMedia https://t.co/iL6SW0gX4Y
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When I was growing up in Washington, D.C.
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"As I’ve reflected on it, the dynamic at play for these athletes — the pressure to remain composed and perform, even at the cost of their wellbeing — reminds me of a lesson in The Black Experience in America: The Course." @ForttMedia https://t.co/UYvFA7QmZn
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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 moments for reasons many in the public did not...
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Proud to celebrate National #SummerLearningWeek with The Black Experience in America: The Course by @jonfortt! Jon delves into the ideas, people, events that have shaped the African-American experience. Discover this and more resources at https://t.co/JYqOxh5ONu #DiscoverSummer
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“I love America, this work in progress, rife as it is with contradictions. And it occurred to me that with branches that reach this high, roots this deep, no one gets to tell me how to be an American.“ —@jonfortt https://t.co/PaETva9glI
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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 obsessive digital sleuthing.
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“It’s possible to contain multitudes. The original Yasuke did. So does Jordan Bentley. And as the Black experience in America shows us all, so can we.” https://t.co/9QEpbyvXBp
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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).
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Jon Fortt
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"... It’s honestly a bit jarring to have #Juneteenth suddenly in the mainstream — a bit like the photo last year of White Democratic lawmakers kneeling in the kente cloth scarves/stoles long favored among ministers in the Black church. ..." https://t.co/KHg1KZGGT8
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A longtime regional celebration in the Black community is suddenly a national holiday
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Build the Future. The Black Experience in America: The Course By @jonfortt #education #edtech #history #americanhistory #diversity https://t.co/WuTcp6xQQQ
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Jon Fortt
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https://t.co/8EgjUYVxSV New from The Black Experience in America: The Course @ForttMedia ... Othello.
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