Producing whiteboard animations on black poetry

In October 2022, I began releasing whiteboard animations focusing on black poetry and literary history. Whiteboard animations are illustrated video narratives, and after studying some of those compositions on various topics, I thought it would be a good idea to work with voice actors and designers to produce some on African American literary studies. 

I received the Stephen L. and Julia Y. Hansen Humanities Award in 2022, and I used funds from that award to begin producing the whiteboard animations. 

[Related: Checklist of whiteboard animations on black poetry]

The compositions I've produced so far trace the publication histories of popular African American poems by Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Claude McKay, and Margaret Walker. I also produced animations focusing on poet William J. Harris, literary scholar and professor Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, and black poetry anthologies of the 1960s and 1970s. 

Related:

•  A Notebook on the African American Poetry Tracker