Alaska
Listen to the program: The story behind the Black in Alaska Project
Jovelle Rennie realized there was a necessity for a narrative telling challenge about what it means to be Black in Alaska, when he requested individuals to call fifty Blacks who reside in Alaska. Most couldn’t do it. But when Rennie started to make up his personal checklist of Black Alaskans with attention-grabbing tales, that checklist went properly past fifty individuals. That’s when he and a workforce of different story tellers determined to gather these tales and share them in an bold multi-media challenge that features an exhibit on the Anchorage Museum and in addition lives on-line at blackinalaska.org. The aim of the challenge was to get a dialog going, a objective that Rennie believes has already been achieved.