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The Black Expanse Project celebrates the expansiveness of what it means to be Black through the curation of a video collection showcasing the complexity, the joy, the beauty, and the reality of wide-ranging expressions of Blackness.

 
 

Day 12: Shea Diamond - “I was born into a gender role that I did not accept & I didn’t feel like myself. Desperate to find the financial means to transition to my true gender, I committed a crime in 1999 & was sentenced to 10 years in a men's prison. While incarcerated, I found a community that shared my trans experience - it was there where I found my voice.”

Day 10: Joy DeGruy - nationally and internationally renowned researcher, educator, author and presenter.

Black History Month Day 8: Mumu Fresh. Mumu Fresh sings that the teacher arrives when the student is ready.
Black History Month Day 6: Majora Carter on Environmental Justice
Black History Day 4: “Love yourself so that love will not be a stranger when it comes” -Jenifer Lewis
Black History Month, Day 2: Pure Black joy, group dancing, 80s music.

Day 11: Ronald McNair - Astronaut

Day 9: Dr. Jamila Lyiscott - 3 Ways to Speak English. Dr. Lyiscott is community-engaged scholar, nationally renowned speaker, and author.

Black History Month Day 7 (one day late): Bayard Rustin. As I watched the video, I thought about what it would have meant to know his story as a young Queer Black person. I'm grateful for this rich history!
Black History Month Day 5: Lift Every Voice and Sing is the Black National Anthem. It was written as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson and then set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson in 1899.
Black History Month, Day 3: An amazing young Black engineer designs a way to help the pollinators!!
Black History Month Day 1: Matthew Henson - first person to reach the North Pole.