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Black
Superheroes
In this class you’ll learn all about the heroes and villains that look like us! We’ll discuss amazing authors and publishers who made us look like us in these comic books and even mangas. We’ll take a dive into black history all the way to the year 1467 to present day to learn about black heroes that have lived and or currently living in our world. We will discuss the evolution of the black character in cartoons and anime. I will then also be recommending books and mangas to read and cartoons and animes to watch that either have an all black cast or the main characters are black. Last but not least, we will also create our own black superheroes and even villains!
African Diaspora 101 + Pan Africanism
What happens when an entire population is unaware of how they got to the present? What was taken from Black Folks and what have we been left with? This course will explore the African Diaspora in understanding the history of peoples dispersed worldwide and the impact it has on EVERYTHING including how we live today in a contemporary society . In this course, we will teach our community where we come from and the impacts of the African Diaspora.
Revolutions In
The Diaspora
This course explores how Africans across the diaspora fought against slavery and how that fight continues into the present day. In the first session of this course, we will explore revolutions in the United States, the Caribbean, and aboard slave ships. Through art, documents, and in-class exercises we will dissect the causes and impacts these revolutions had directly on the participants and history. In the second session of this course, we will workshop the ways we can practice revolution, fugitivity and marronage in our own lives as we struggle for global Black liberation. Participants will come away with a better understanding of the idea of revolution, how revolt happens in practice, and how they can revolutionize their community in all aspects.
Across
the Atlantic
During the 1831-1832 legislative session, the Maryland general assembly approved a legislature that gave the Maryland State Colonization Society (MSCS) the duty of removing free Black Marylanders from the state of Maryland to the colony of Liberia. With this, the Maryland State Colonization Society created a new settlement in Cape Palmas, Liberia (Maryland-in-Liberia) that would serve as a 'container' for free Black people and satisfy the white hysteria caused by the Southampton Insurrection. This migration and state-enforced settlement would intertwine the histories of Liberia and Baltimore.
Between the
Lines
Between The Lines is a reflection-focused class that introduces creative writing as an outlet for understanding our day-to-day experiences as Black people. At its core, creative writing is a form of reflection and can aid in capturing emotions and putting names to experiences one otherwise couldn’t share. This class fuses together reflection, creative writing and community-building and serves as a resting place to help free your mind for just an hour and thirty-minutes of your day!
Pearl Primus + The Power of Black Dance
Pearl Primus embodies the significance of how Black diasporic dance can transcend how we connect through a medium that never needed to be colonized to understand. The purpose of this course is to explore the powerful role Pearl Primus played in charting an unparalleled path through investigative anthropological pursuits of African culture and the development of black modern dance in America. The lesson will focus on three key areas. The first area will examine the Afro-Caribbean movement brought over during slavery to the Americas that revolutionized the makings of black modern dance and themes reflected daily life activities. The second area will focus on how modern dance reflects issues of black pride, self-expression, and identity. The third area will explore how modern dance themes of social justice and activism evolved in response to a racist American society.
PIC Abolition
Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) Abolition is about ending incarceration, policing and surveillance while also building a world where our needs are met without punishment. We’ll discuss the relationships that create the PIC and how it maintains its power through racial, economic, media and political systems. In this course, we will have guests that organize from inside and outside of prisons will join us to dive deeper into aspects of PIC abolition. Our goal is to individually and collectively find ways to apply abolitionists principles in our lives and work through study and conversation. Our goal is to individually and collectively find ways to apply abolitionists principles in our lives and work through study and conversation.
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