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

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.