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Mosaic Literary Conference 2018
The Mosaic Literary Conference is a grassroots event and a great opportunity for the Bronx and New York City communities of educators, students, program administrators, and parents to learn ways to integrate books and reading into the lives of teenagers.
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James Baldwin • Lesson Plan Workshop
There are many lenses through which to view literary great James Baldwin. This lesson plan workshop examines Baldwin the author activist and provide a historic context for young people to better understand that #BlackLivesMatter and #QueerLivesMatter are fresh iterations of centuries-long freedom struggles. Civil Rights struggles are as varied and diverse as the beautiful diversity…
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Jamel Shabazz Lesson Plan Workshop
At the intersection of instinct and genius we find Jamel Shabazz. With a camera in his hand and love in his heart for his people and his community, Shabazz makes you stop, look and wonder. Shabazz, a photographer from Red Hook, Brooklyn followed his gut, triggered to shoot what many would find mundane; street culture…
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Black Poets Speak Out Lesson Plan Workshop
This workshop will focus on the work of Black Poets Speak Out (BPSO) whose hashtag video campaign on Tumblr featured hundreds of videos from Black poets reading in response to the grand jury’s decision on November 24, 2014 not to indict Darren Wilson, the police officer who murdered Mike Brown. According to organizer Mahogany Browne,…
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Audre Lorde Lesson Plan Workshop
Presented by Mosaic Magazine/Literary Freedom Project at the Laundromat Project, 920 Kelly St. Bronx, NY Free Event • Click here to RSVP Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992) described herself as a “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” A champion for the liberation of all dispossessed people, Lorde concentrated her activism in the struggle for freedom for…
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James Baldwin/Jesmyn Ward/Black History Month
In honor of Black History Month, this professional-development workshop will help participants and educators explore activist issues within the work of Jesmyn Ward and James Baldwin. With her fourth book, The Fire This Time, Ward has assembled a powerful collection of work by contemporary writers of African descent. Divided into three parts; Legacy, Reckoning, and…
