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The Kindred Blackness Museum is a virtual, imaginary museum set in the all-Black city of Iaville, Philadelphia, curated by a fictional version of Harlem Renaissance leader Alain LeRoy Locke. It features African American art, literature, and archives enhanced by technologies like AI, text mining, and digital mapping. In this interdisciplinary project, students use the museum as a creative research space to explore themes of identity, memory, and cultural expression. They will develop original narratives, journal entries, or visual stories that reflect both historical and imagined African American experiences. Ideal for language arts, art, media, or social studies, the project encourages culturally responsive storytelling through a blend of personal insight, creative thinking, and digital tools.

Telling Our Stories "Kindred Blackness: A Digital Storytelling Experience"

Visit the Kindred Blackness Museum Project: Overview: Stories carry our emotions, our memories, and our culture. As technology grows, we now create stories with AI—machines trained to write, draw, and imagine. But here's the big question: Can AI ever truly feel what you feel? This activity explores whether a machine can understand humanness—or if that’s something only you can bring to a story. Part 1: Your Story, Your Voice Think about a personal memory, emotion, or experience. Write a short paragraph or poem that captures how it felt. Use powerful words, colors, or metaphors to bring it to life. Part 2: Invite AI to Join In Use an AI writing tool or image generator to recreate your story in a different way. You can: Ask it to rewrite your story Generate an image that matches your scene or emotion

Telling Our Stories "Kindred Blackness: A Digital Storytelling Experience"

Think about a time when your emotions shaped the way you told a story—maybe a time you were proud, angry, or excited. How did that feeling change the way you described it or created art around it? Now think about AI—technology that can help us write stories, generate pictures, and even make music. But here’s the big question: Can a computer truly understand feelings like you do? Can it capture the emotion behind your story, or is that something only a human can do? Let’s explore the power of your personal voice in storytelling—and where (or if) AI fits in.

Telling Our Stories "Kindred Blackness: A Digital Storytelling Experience"

Digital Art Work: The Kindred Blackness Museum Project