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Stories that explore culture, faith and community.
Joined September 2020
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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"As we equip more people with these storytelling tools and the skills to use them, we’ll gain a richer understanding of our past, and the path forward." @ForttMedia @Adobe #blackhistory #edtech #software
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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 work played a significant role in making it...
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First day of #BlackHistoryMonth 2022. Here are my reflections (and plans): #BHM #USHistory @ForttMedia
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To download free social media images to celebrate Black history, click here.
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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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New from @ForttMedia: Free art to celebrate #Blackhistory on your social profiles: #bhm #BlackHistoryMonth
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Download original images from The Black Experience catalog for your social profiles
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https://t.co/LhURhQO6RN. From "Renaissance." @ForttMedia #BlackHistory #music #jazz #blues #ushistory
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Get to the heart of #MLKDay2022 and get a head start on #BlackHistoryMonth with our free resource, via @jonfortt: https://t.co/pHrRHklyFE
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Black history, identity and culture provide a window into American history and the challenges ahead.
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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
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Reconsidering an Icon in the Face of Modern Challenges
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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
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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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"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
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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
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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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Thanks to @DrLaGarrettKing and #Cartercon21 for the opportunity to share what I've learned in creating and expanding https://t.co/FEnnSCbxdC.
@ForttMedia #teachblackhistory
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Above: A screenshot from the opening of the Teaching Black History Conference
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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
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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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"... 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
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https://t.co/8EgjUYVxSV New from The Black Experience in America: The Course @ForttMedia ... Othello.
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