This syllabus is full of some of the material that has assisted me in my dreaming. I hope it can assist you all as well.
Last Updated: November 25, 2023
photography by: Mikhael Subotzky
The Playlist
Text
Letter to My Nephew, James Baldwin https://progressive.org/magazine/letter-nephew/
Queries of Unrest, Clint Smith
Chapter Two of All about Love on Childhood Justice, bell hooks
A Menace to My Enemies, June Jordan https://poets.org/poem/i-must-become-menace-my-enemies
Catch the Fire, Sonia Sanchez https://furiousflower.org/catch-the-fire-by-sonia-sanchez
Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Ntzokae Shange
photography by Jean-Pierre Laffont
Video
Duke Ellington on Dreaming:
James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFeoS41xe7w&t=1316s
When The Poet Becomes a Realist by Alysia Harris and Tina Colon:
https://youtu.be/hIe8-B7owck?si=BXRBOXKFcJq0fI5s
Baby Boy by Alysia Harris and Tina Colon:
https://youtu.be/jSUEudTdoSw?si=LEMshhIV9KQVoHnH
Sistergirlfriend, Zora Howard
https://youtu.be/cH8ogHF13lQ?si=XWJT-mqdcg48x_r9