Inspiration.
During the 18th & 19th centuries, freedom papers were documents that declared the free status of African people. Without these liberatory documents, free people of African descent lived under the constant threat that they could be stolen and re-sold back into enslavement and oppression.
Purpose.
Similar to freedom papers of the past, this curated toolkit is chockfull of documents & resources (reading lists, articles, docs, etc.) that can help verify one’s free status in America - despite the reality of racist & oppressive systems.
Who Am I?
I’m Tyree Boyd-Pates, a museum curator, professor, writer, speaker, and activist who expounds on Black culture from a millennial vantage and mobilizes communities of color through journalism, social media, education, and history.
“Those who profess to favor freedom
and yet depreciate agitation, are
people who want crops without
ploughing the ground…. The struggle
may be a moral one, or it may be a
physical one, or it may be both. But it
must be a struggle.”
Timeline.
A PRIMER ON IMPORTANT BLACK HISTORY MILESTONES.
African American Studies 101.
This is a free index on African American studies foundations & key concepts.
Syllabus.
COLLEGE SYLLABUS: AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES 200 (AFS 200)
By Professor Tyree Boyd-Pates
Speeches.
01.
Malcom X’s Legendary Speech: “The Ballot or the Bullet”
02.
Bobby Seale: The 10 Point Program of the Black Panther Party
03.
James Baldwin and Dick Gregory “Baldwin’s Nigger”
04.
Oppression and Repression in the U.S. by Angela Davis
Playlist.
A curated music playlist to serve as the soundtrack for “The Revolution”
Articles.
Women, Power, and Revolution — Kathleen Neal Cleaver
We Are At War — Sista Souljah
The Case for Reparations — Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Docs & Films.
I Am Not Your Negro
13th -Ava Duvernay
When They See Us -Ava Duvernay
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts -Spike Lee
Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Curriculum.
“We Charge Genocide Again!” — A Curriculum for Operation Ghetto Storm
The objective of the curriculum is to have teacher-students and student-teachers engage the realities of extrajudicial killings of Black people. The curriculum includes a series of lesson plans to nurture critical thinking and analysis of these state sanctioned killings.
Protest.
“I’m no longer accepting the
things I cannot change…I’m
changing the things I cannot
accept.”
Thank You!
I hope that this toolkit was useful in assisting you in understanding, countering, and resisting racism and discrimination during this moment. Feel free to share!
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