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Poetry" 2015 A community member reads original work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5915fc7df7e0ab5cfcbb43c8/1510286163107-LCYEMKKR099KYI3T0HPT/image-asset.jpeg "An Evening of Poetry" 2015 A community member reads original material. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5915fc7df7e0ab5cfcbb43c8/1510286184902-7KOYC4Y4DOM7RK2QWWS6/image-asset.jpeg "An Evening of Poetry" 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5915fc7df7e0ab5cfcbb43c8/1510334898042-JTEM7RUO3RXCTBKJD99L/image-asset.jpeg "An Evening of Poetry" 2015 A performance of India.Arie's "Beautiful Flower." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5915fc7df7e0ab5cfcbb43c8/1510334794561-UKVL8AFCWO1I3EGU8RN5/image-asset.jpeg "An Evening of Poetry" 2015 A reading of King Solomon's poetry from the Bible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5915fc7df7e0ab5cfcbb43c8/1510286037516-LN2A4PQGVSWF22MNU1M5/image-asset.jpeg "An Evening of Poetry" 2015 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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5915fc7df7e0ab5cfcbb43c8/a04c8c90-0999-432a-8f3c-0bdd7ecd4e53/IMG_9119.JPG Freedom School - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5915fc7df7e0ab5cfcbb43c8/408d2607-237d-49c1-a56c-b94d77752193/IMG_3623.png Freedom School - Dr. Zanice Bond Zanice Bond is currently an association professor of English in the Department of Modern Languages, Communication, and Philosophy at Tuskegee University, where she teachers first-year English composition, African American Literature, Southern literature, and Modern English Grammar and Linguistics. Dr. Bond earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Kansas. She is on the board of the Alabama Writers’ Forum and serves as its president. She was the recipient of a Booker T. Washington Leadership Institute mini-grant for 2021-2022 and was co-director of a two-year NEH grant, “Literary Legacies of Macon County and Tuskegee Institute: Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph W. Ellison, and Albert Murray.” Zanice was also guest curator at Tuskegee’s Legacy Museum for the “Soul of Zora: A Literary Legacy through Quilts” exhibit that ran from March until September 2019. She has served as lead scholar for two Alabama Humanities Alliance SUPER Teacher Institutes—”Examining Dyann Robinson’s The Three Wives of Booker T.” and “All Y’all Really From Alabama: Teaching the Poetry of Ashley M. Jones.” Zanice is an Alabama Folklife Association Cauthen Fellow (2022-2023). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5915fc7df7e0ab5cfcbb43c8/5f6c7431-6abf-429c-abc6-8761a58e9677/david-carter.jpg Freedom School - Dr. David Carter David Carter received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 2001 and a B.A. with Highest Honors in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992. Carter’s research and teaching interests are in the history of the Black Freedom Struggle, the history of the American South since the Civil War, the history of racial terror lynching, “race riots,” and other forms of racialized violence, and U.S. history since 1945, especially the Vietnam War era. He is particularly drawn to the role of race, ideology, and historical memory in shaping American history. Carter is the author of The Music Has Gone Out of the Movement: Civil Rights and the Johnson Administration, 1965-1968, a study of the shifting relationships between the presidency of Lyndon Johnson and grassroots advocates of racial and economic equality. His commentary on the history of the Kerner Commission, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, is featured in the documentary film The Riot Report, which premiered in 2024 on PBS as part of the “American Experience” series. Carter was involved for several years in collaborative research and writing on Lyndon Johnson’s civil rights policies with Kent Germany of the University of South Carolina, resulting in the co-edited volume The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson: Mississippi Burning and the Passage of the Civil Rights Act (Norton, 2011). 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