Creative Post: Black Pain VS Black Joy

Black people are forced to relive the trauma of seeing someone that could have easily been their mother, brother, sister, or uncle be killed ruthlessly. To so frequently see Black life treated so callously on a regular basis, is the visual reinforcement of priming. Black pain and sorrow have become a mode of mainstream entertainment,…

Creative Post: Black Joy, Black Love, and Black Power Through Music

For my creative post, I chose to curate a playlist that represents some of the themes and conversations that resonated with me the most from our time in class together. I created this playlist by going through my own music library and looking for songs that fell under three main categories that I feel like…

Final Journal Assessment Form (Due by Email, Sunday 5/9 at 6:00pm)

Reflection on Content What connections do you notice emerging across your journal entries? As you reflect on your entries, do you find any contradictions, corrections, reversals, or otherwise shifts in your perspective or reasoning between one entry and another? Or even within one entry? Compare your first entry, your 6th entry, and your last entry.…