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S1, Ep 003 with Michele Simms-Burton (certified instructional designer, author and founding board member of the Toni Morrison Society)on the 2020 Smithsonian seminar on the life and works of her colleague Toni Morrison artwork

S1, Ep 003 with Michele Simms-Burton (certified instructional designer, author and founding board member of the Toni Morrison Society)on the 2020 Smithsonian seminar on the life and works of her colleague Toni Morrison

Belonging to Blackness
S1 E356:28
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In this episode, host Yndia sits down with Michele Simms-Burton, PhD, scholar of African American history and literature, certified instructional designer, author, and founding board member of the Toni Morrison Society to discuss her love for literature and the arts, what it was like growing up around James Baldwin, travel noir, and her upcoming Feb 2020 Smithsonian seminar on the life and works of her colleague, Toni Morrison. The post S1, Ep 003 with Michele Simms-Burton (certified instructional designer, author and founding board member of the Toni Morrison Society)on the 2020 Smithsonian seminar on the life and works of her colleague Toni Morrison appeared first on Yndia Lorick-Wilmot, PhD.

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