This website was created by Jordan Bell, using publically accessible digital website resources: Michigan.Gov, yolandasealeyruiz.com, and numerous other websites. Thank you to all persons and groups who created space for this website by either making a direct or indirect contribution to its development. A special thank you and shout out goes to Dr. Sherry Deckman for inspiring and supporting this project of love.

This site is dedicated to the free distribution of Racial Literacy knowledge in all of its forms.

About Jordan: Jordan Bell is an instructor of English at Dutchess Community College where he teaches English and Philosophy courses through a critical lens, and he is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center with research interests that center around Critical Race Theory, BlackCrit, Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education (CRSE), and Racial Literacy, amongst other things. Moreover, Jordan also serves as the Chair of the State University of New York (SUNY) Black Faculty and Staff Collective (SBFSC) where the collective works to support Black Bodies at SUNY and beyond, and as an editor for New York University’s (NYU) Voices in Urban Education (VUE) Journal. Jordan’s race and anti-Blackness centered work has manifested in some of the following presentations: “Presidential Racial (il)Literacy and its Policy Implications” Black History Month, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2020; “The Divide That Destroyed Poughkeepsie” Black History Month, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2019; “Bell-hooks: Incorporating Multicultural pedagogies of the Academic Other” Black History Month, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2018; “Dick Gregory: Too Soon To Forget” Black History Month, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2018; “Contemporary Economic Policies and the Black Community” Black History Month, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2017; “Economics and the Black Woman in America” 23^rd Annual Multicultural Education Conference, SUNY New Paltz, 2017; “10 Steps to Success, Happiness, and Fulfillment” Lyceum, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2017; “Implicit Bias Workshop” 22^nd Annual Multicultural Education Conference, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, 2016; “Implicit Bias Workshop” Black History Month, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2016; “Hating Your Neighbor in 21^st the Century America” Black history Month, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2015; and “From Nigger to Nigga: Progress?” Black History Month, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2014.

Contact info: Phone: 845-431-8424 Email: [email protected] IG: Prof_Jbell