Historic Takoma
History Lives Here
History Lives Here
March 7, 2024
Dr. Jenice L. View
Sunday, March 17 at 4:30 PM
7328 Carroll Avenue
Dr. View will talk about the ways schools and communities can use lessons from the historic civil rights movement to bring about social justice today. She also will share her experience with disseminating these ideas locally, nationally, and across the world.
Among her publications is the award-winning book Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching, with a foreword by the late Congressman John Lewis. Her book is a featured title at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
She is Associate Professor Emerita of Education at George Mason University. After careers in academia and the non-governmental sector, she is now co-owner with her two daughters of Three Points of View (3PV), a Black women-owned consulting group focused on education policy, program development, and cultural ambassadorship.
Dr. View grew up in Takoma Park, DC, where she currently resides, and is a proud product of DC public schools.
February 18, 2024
Join us for a screening of Doing Oral History: An Introduction, coproduced by Michael Fincham and Ali Kahn for Historic Takoma’s African American Oral History Project. The tools of oral history can help you record and preserve stories and lived experiences of family members, friends, and community members. This 18-minute video explores what oral history is and why it’s important to capture and preserve, through the voices of ordinary people, unwritten details and experiences of daily life seldom found in conventional historical accounts. Featured interviews were conducted by Ali, a folklorist and writer. She will lead a post-screening discussion on the practice and process of this documentary method and share supplemental materials developed for students, teachers, and others.
November 7, 2023
Join us for a presentation by local author Deb Nelson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and Professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at University of Maryland. She who will discuss the obstacles she overcame to document a secret history of the U.S. war in Vietnam for her nonfiction book, “The War Behind Me.”
August 31, 2023
Join us on September 17 for the next Voices of Takoma Authors event.
