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Why Black stories matter

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Lesson 1

The need for Black storytellers

[Music] it's so important to have black storytellers in music in the arts in film in literature because we have important stories to tell and we are fully human the only way tha...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 2

Stories build empathy

someone's story you can connect with them on a way and it makes it so much harder for you to enact violence on someone or to discriminate against someone when you know their sto...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 3

Seeing yourself in books

color in ways that i never got to see them when i was growing up i didn't have any books with people that looked like me so i'm really excited to kind of open up as many differe...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 4

Art that reflects loss

my painting on the cover of time magazine that she felt like she saw an image that actually reflected her loss identifying stereotypes in black culture it's kind of easy for me...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 5

Representation as a mirror

represented means a lot and people need to see themselves as a mirror in the work that they consume when people see us dress as kings a lot of times they're like oh they're holl...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 6

Hopeful stories for young readers

making work for young readers is that the work gets to be wonderful and whimsical and kind of hopeful and i really want to make work that shows young people that there are so ma...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 7

Challenging harmful narratives

because we're here we matter so when i think about particularly the tradition of black journalists but black storytellers in general it has been to push back against the narrati...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 8

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Language: en

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