Exploring The Backroads: Public History with Jessica Hanson

https://gf.me/u/y5djqg Please consider donating! Any amount helps. My amazing friend Abiola Williams ( McGarrell Seville ) & former co-teacher (we taught kindergarten together at Purpose Prep) has created a pod for students whose parents desperately need in-person education vs. Zoom/online during the pandemic. She is trying to finance a building for a larger space for her learning center: WisRoc Learning ! I know $ is tight for many during this time. However, education is so important & she is doing great things for people in our community. #PleaseConsider #education #students #teaching #teachers #finance #entrepreneur #supportBlackwomen #children #literacy #STEAM #Covid19 #pandemiceducation Us in New Jersey for a training in 2015! <3  (l to r: Ms. Winston, Mrs. Bancroft, Mrs. Williams, & myself) Us, on the the subway headed into NYC! <3 Love you, lady!  Spring 2015 with our #KBabies during "choice time!" #Harvardforever <3  College S...

If you have become hardened to Biblical or religious hypocrisies in general (btw, that is humans tainting it-not deities & spirits)... If you can't focus (due to deep anguish, anxiety, depression, etc...) to work, rest, read a self health article, much less a book... If you have talked to your friends and family so much about the same shit and now feel like a burden... Sometimes only music can help/ save you!  Last fall 2019, I took my life back! I "asserted" myself as a woman to an "extreme" sense for me; it was possibly just a Tuesday/ Saturday for some of my less stifled friends (lol-E makes me think of our convos)... I would lay on the couch, in the tub (poor Shelly & D.W., lol-sorry yall: #friendslikefamily), just staring... zoned tf out. I would try to fill the pain and confusion with noise. Noise though does not have to come from speaking... I saw other friends healing from their shit... Why couldn't I? I could not focus. I could not fathom be...

The United States will elect a new President or re-elect Donald Trump 17 days from today, Tuesday, November 3rd.  I put this video in my Instagram stories yesterday-but think it deserves a permanent post and analysis. I have been encouraged to share my blog more publicly lately (thanks Jasmyn Wright  <3 #PushThrough). I will start doing so with this post here (in my linktr.ee/JESSICA0114 -where you can find some links to other writing I have done, this year+) & on all social media platforms. Beyond politics, it covers subjects like social justice, mental health: relationships & generational trauma, education (K-12 + Higher Education), health, & travel.  There are so many connections between this local 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina election from the video and 2020's political election.  Sometimes parties use propaganda to achieve their goals/manipulation.  In this 1898 election, they slandered Black leadership, any whites who supported and worked...

I have an acquaintance who I met on Instagram. She is inspiring and literally "Pushes Through" everything :)! In fact, she even created a mantra about it and has gone world-wide with her message. It started out in her classroom. I even taught it to my students a couple of years. She did it for a GAP kids commercial, with the Philadelphia Eagles, and on the news once with Michael Strahan.  Now, she travels the globe giving speeches. I saw recently she had given a TedX Talk in Dover, Delaware ( A TEDx Talk is a showcase for speakers presenting great, well-formed ideas in under 18 minutes ).  I said to myself, I will manifest that one day for myself-giving a Ted Talk. The college I am an English Professor for (TSU-in Nashville) emailed all staff and students about a Virtual Honor's College T.E.D. Talk regarding topics like social justice, politics, the pandemic, or any important information that can inform or persuade an audience in September. I was in shock. Was this some s...