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More than A Month Black History and Life Series V
An Online Zoom Webinar Course
Weekly beginning February 13 , 2025 (Time: 11:00AM – 1:00PM MST - Arizona Time)
Led by award-winning educator, author, community engagement specialist, motivational speaker Matthew C. Whitaker, Ph.D.
In 2025, Black history is more important than ever due to ongoing debates about, and the outright rejection of, teaching hard truths about American history, attempts to restrict Black history education, and the need to actively combat systemic racism. This makes it crucial to continue highlighting the contributions and struggles of Black people to fully understand American history and work towards a more equitable society. You may not get this history in school or in your professional development, but you will get it here, so you can know better. As Maya Angelou once said, "When you know better, you do better." Let us know and do better together!
Certificates of completion for professional and personal development will be bestowed upon everyone who finishes all 9 sessions.
"All history is a current Event." ~ John Henrik Clarke
Learn what you have always wanted to know in an intimate and positive space!
This interactive ten week webinar series will allow Black lives to speak, inspire, and instruct our way forward. Anyone interested in understanding the contemporary fight for racial justice, will not want to miss it. This webinar series will pay particular attention to the ways in which Black people have resisted forces that have marginalized and dehumanize them, while helping build a dynamic society based upon cultural pluralism. We will begin with pre-colonial Africa, and the trans-Atlantic slave trade, American slavery, emancipation, and reconstruction eras. We will then explore Jim Crow segregation, World War I, the Great Depression, New Deal, Harlem and Chicago Renaissances, and World II. We will conclude with the civil rights, Hip Hop, Barack Obama, and Black Lives Matter generations.
Throughout the course, we will examine migration processes, Black organizations, leaders, and the roles faith, class, gender, and sexual orientation have played within Black communities, and the emergence of Black culture as a powerful force in global society.
2/13 - Pre-Colonial Africa
2/20 - Slave Trading and U.S. Slavery
2/27 - Emancipation and Reconstruction
3/6 - Jim Crow, War and Culture
3/13 - New Dealing and Renaissance
3/20 - Black America and World War II
3/27 - The Civil Rights Movement
4/3 - Hip Hop, Obamamerica and BLM
4/10 - Racial Diversity and Uncivil Wars
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