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A documentary inspired by James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time. Produced by Dr. Jervette Ward's African American Literature Class #OurVoicesThisTime

Starkville, MS
Joined April 2020
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Congrats to @joycarinyo on her Fulbright!!! She was also the lead script writer for the #OurVoicesThisTime film!!!
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Our Voices This Time retweeted
So happy to celebrate this news on my birthday!!! Ida B. Wells has LONG deserved this honor!!
Congratulations to the family of the late #IdaBWells, including @MichelleDuster. #Pulitzer
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Welcome to the 2nd annual Starkville Table of Culinary Justice - virtual due to the Coronavirus - led by @MSStateEnglish students in the #MSUfoodLit course taught by @JervetteWard & benefitting Bully’s Closet & Pantry @msstate_fsn #StarkvilleCulinaryJustice #EthnicMississippi
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Our Voices This Time retweeted
Yesterday @MSStateEnglish African American Literature students released their mini film @ourvoicesdoc on YouTube & TODAY @MSUFoodLit students will host the virtual #StarkvilleCulinaryJustice to benefit @msstate_fsn — Watch the film now & Join us at 1pm youtu.be/mXBdmjMzDxc
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Our Voices This Time retweeted
Join @msufoodlit class TODAY @ 1PM for the second annual #StarkvilleCulinaryJustice event — this virtual event benefits Bully’s Closet & Pantry @msstate_fsn which provides for MSU students in need —this year’s Table focuses on #EthnicMississippi DONATE: securelb.imodules.com/s/811/…
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The wait is over! Check out our documentary #OurVoicesThisTime youtu.be/mXBdmjMzDxc While viewing, we invite you to join us in a discussion of the film in a thread below.
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We are just five days out from our premiere of #OurVoicesThisTime. Shoutout to all of the amazing students who are making the April 28th release possible!
Check out the Our Voices This Time Trailer youtu.be/LlmNKgXp99g on YouTube! Credit to all the talented students in the class who’ve put in so much work to make this documentary happen! #msstate #ourvoicesdoc
In #OurVoicesDoc, the students of @JervetteWard’s class speak about how they view race and offer advice to future generations in order to help them navigate racial issues. What advice would you give to a young person to help them understand and deal with race in America?
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#OurVoiceThisTime started as an in-class writing assignment where, like Baldwin, we wrote a letter to a younger person of our choice & gave them advice on navigating race & America. (1/3)
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Check out some of our handwritten letters photographed by a student in the class Jaylan Wright! (3/3)
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Students of @MSStateEnglish's African American Literature class & their professor, @JervetteWard are proud to present #OurVoicesThisTime, a documentary inspired by James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time. Follow us to learn more about our documentary that will debut April 28 @ 12 pm!
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