Intro Resources:
- FULL TEXT (online)
- Full Text PDF (Missing some pages – ACT 1 SC 2)
- Why Black Panther is a Defining Moment for Black America (NYT 2018)
- A People’s Journey (National Museum of African American History & Culture)
- The 1950s
- African American History Timeline
- Adapting August Wilson: How His Play FENCES Became a Movie (and why so much of his work hasn’t)
- Denzel Washington & Viola Davis on Adapting FENCES and Honoring August Wilson (NPR)
- INVISIBLE MAN (Prologue) by Ralph Ellison
- Commentary on where Roseanne Show meets Invisible Man (“I see you. You matter.”)
- Re-Thinking Dr. Seuss & Racism
- 6 Dr. Seuss Books Won’t Be Published Anymore
- Reevaluating To Kill A Mockingbird (PBS 6 min video)
- National Memorial to Peace & Justice – Lynching (PBS Video)
- Colin Kaepernick Wins Amnesty International’s Highest Honor
- “Privileged” by Kyle Korver (NBA)
- How One Teenager Unearthed Baseball’s Untold Story (Negro Leagues)
- 60 Minutes – Lynchings Memorial (Video)
- “The Meanings of a Word” by Gloria Naylor
- Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood Takes on Racism (w/ Officer Clemens)
- Barnes & Noble Cancels Book Covers Project After Backlash
- SHOULD THIS BOOK BE IN OUR CURRICULUM?
Assignments:
Other Fences Resources:
- August Wilson (Wiki)
- August Wilson Bio
- American Masters – August Wilson “The Ground on Which I Stand” (PBS video)
- All things August Wilson (NY Times Archives)
- August Wilson Theater & More
- August Wilson Website
- August Wilson’s Blues Poetry (esp. FENCES section!)
- Last Piece of AW’s Legacy Comes Home
- The Unconscious Rebellion of August Wilson
- Shopping for Jazz Records with August Wilson
- Remembering August Wilson
- What’s Denzel Washington up to?? (All Wilson Plays coming to HBO?)
- Denzel’s FENCES into Production (2016)
- VIDEO: Interview with August Wilson (Bill Moyers)
- Show Clips: Denzel Washington in FENCES (Video)
- Troy Maxson: Heart, Heartbreak as Big as the World
Even more resources:
- 60 Minutes – Lynchings Memorial (Video)
- “The Meanings of a Word” by Gloria Naylor
- A Racist World, Described By Those Who Knew It (NYT)
- Iowa Cross Burning Photo Shocks Football Team’s Black Quarterback (2017)
- Charlie From “The Chocolate Factory” Was Originally Black (2017)
- “We Need to Talk About Injustice” (Bryan Stevenson TED Talk 2012)
- Two Professors on Different Campuses Used the N-Word
- Story Behind Black-ish N-Word Episode
- Cheerleader Squad Suspended for Using N-Word in Rap Video
- Being Black in Suburban Schools: Fewer APs & More Suspensions (USA Today – Rochester focus)
- The Case for Reparations (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
- The Impossibility of Reparations (David Frum)
- Michelle Obama Interviews Amanda Gorman – The Renaissance is Black (TIME)