Encounters In Black Traditions
Encounters In Black Traditions invites you and your community to celebrate the cultural tapestry of the African-American Experience and the rich history, legacy, and contribution of inner-city African-American communities, as told by you.
Encounters in Black Traditions, an incorporated nonprofit organization, was developed as a digital multi-media inner-city minority folk arts video series to document, educate, archive, and showcase life on life terms.
The project documents various creative and artistic responses to life, focusing on being home to first-generation inner-city residents and their daughters, sons, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. This project will bring these traditions into classrooms, museums, and festival showcases and submit them to Public Broadcasting Stations around the world so that the residents of the inner cities may be appreciated for their significance and importance as part of the American Pie.
They are also developing cultural-themed digital tools for educators to incorporate into the curriculum. Topics include how to research, ID, and preserve the self-pride of their cultural spine, in addition to hands-on involvement with equipment.
