Welcome again to the 16 National Black writers conference. My name is erica boddington and as youve heard on the ceo and founder of langston, a consulting curriculum firm specializes in culturally affirming instruction materials and writing for late night segment called how do we get here on the amber ruffin show . Speaking of how we got, were all here for roundtable entitled the souls of black folk telling our stories. Todays roundtable title is taken from w. E. B. Duboiss landmark book, the souls black folk. And in this regard, todays speakers will discuss how their work to the complex experiences of black people. The African Diaspora through fiction, drama and essay each featured here today will illustrate the ways in which his or her work speak to the complex experiences of black people in literature and i know were at the 16th National Black writers conference, but the speakers youre about to listen to are not living by the pen. Youll witnessing the unraveling of whitewashed histo
Donors. It is your support that allows the New York Historical society to pursue its mission to make history matter and for that we are most thankful. We are currently open from wednesdays through sundays. We would love to see you at the museum and we invite you to reserve your time. Entry tickets on our website tonights program will last approximately 45 minutes and that includes about 15 minutes at the end for questions and answers at any point during the presentation. Please feel free to submit your questions via the queue and a function on your zoom screen. We will attempt to get to as many questions as possible at the end of the presentation and just do be sure to use the q a button as we have disabled the chat. And now i will share my slides. Monuments are very much in the air these days sometimes quite literally as you can see in our title graphic for the exhibition featuring the monument to John C Calhoun lifted from its pedestal in charleston, South Carolina in 2020. And in ou
My name is erica boddington and as youve heard on the ceo and founder of langston, a consulting curriculum firm specializes in culturally affirming instruction materials and writing for late night segment called how do we get here on the amber ruffin show . Speaking of how we got, were all here for roundtable entitled the souls of black folk telling our stories. Todays roundtable title is taken from w. E. B. Duboiss landmark book, the souls black folk. And in this regard, todays speakers will discuss how their work to the complex experiences of black people. The African Diaspora through fiction, drama and essay each featured here today will illustrate the ways in which his or her work speak to the complex experiences of black people in literature and i know were at the 16th National Black writers conference, but the speakers youre about to listen to are not living by the pen. Youll witnessing the unraveling of whitewashed history through the eyes of historians like dolan valdez, whose
Gratitude to our trustees our Chairmans Council and all of our members and other generous donors. It is your support that allows the New York Historical society to pursue its mission to make history matter and for that we are most thankful. We are currently open from wednesdays through sundays. We would love to see you at the museum and we invite you to reserve your time. Entry tickets on our website tonights program will last approximately 45 minutes and that includes about 15 minutes at the end for questions and answers at any point during the presentation. Please feel free to submit your questions via the queue and a function on your zoom screen. We will attempt to get to as many questions as possible at the end of the presentation and just do be sure to use the q a button as we have disabled the chat. And now i will share my slides. Monuments are very much in the air these days sometimes quite literally as you can see in our title graphic for the exhibition featuring the monument t
Chairmans council and all of our members and other generous donors. It is your support that allows the New York Historical society to pursue its mission to make history matter and for that we are most thankful. We are currently open from wednesdays through sundays. We would love to see you at the museum and we invite you to reserve your time. Entry tickets on our website tonights program will last approximately 45 minutes and that includes about 15 minutes at the end for questions and answers at any point during the presentation. Please feel free to submit your questions via the queue and a function on your zoom screen. We will attempt to get to as many questions as possible at the end of the presentation and just do be sure to use the q a button as we have disabled the chat. And now i will share my slides. Monuments are very much in the air these days sometimes quite literally as you can see in our title graphic for the exhibition featuring the monument to John C Calhoun lifted from i