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UnRedact the Facts

Racial equity advocate and consultant whose mission is, "to unRedact the facts of history to tell the full(est) story for racial equity and healing."

11/10/2023

Hi there!

Got 10-minutes?

Q1. Do grammar and language choices affect your feelings?
Q2. Want to explore your response to Q1, and how grammar and language choices make people feel?

Fantastic! Complete the survey -- see link in bio.

How will (un)Redact the Facts use these results?
:: To strengthen the advocacy for people and organizations to use (un)redacted grammar and language.

New to (un)redacted grammar and language?
:: See the survey link for a quick primer before completing the survey.

Last night (Nov. 9), at the American Institute of Architects New York’s Center for Architecture, I launched this survey. It was the Call to Action, closing remarks for a night of storytelling about architecture that I co-organized and co-hosted with amazing architects and designers.

Thanks so much for your time. Special thanks to my survey reviewer.
Be kind to yourself and others.

- kennedy
Founder of (un)Redact the Facts, an initiative of

is also home to .integrity and

04/11/2023

Thankful for the opportunity to share , an initiative of my design studio at the 2023 Invisible Architectures Conf., "Archival Silent Noise," hosted by + of on Fri., April 14.

Keynote by .

To register for the free event, see link in bio.

02/24/2023

“Black History Month — an Opportunity to (un)Redact the Facts”

A 14-minute read, see the friends + family link in the profile.

02/08/2023

Allllrriiiiggght!
It’s been a week or so since I launched Redacted BINGO!

Thank you to the registered participants! I received the first completed card from an anonymous participant the same day that they registered — awesome 😎

Image 1: I’m sharing their submittal here as an example of a complete BINGO card submittal. The first image is a screenshot of their email. For clarity, I labeled each section.

Complete as many squares as you can until the end of February.

Image 2: The BINGO cards at play. Join the other players — register at the link in profile.

01/17/2023

Coming soon for February 2023 Black History Month ...

Get ready for a bit of fun and games in the name of racial equity.

Be sure to keep your notification on for for the latest post and story for (un)Redact the Facts.

Registration opens the week of January 30, 2023!

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01/09/2023

Oh yes, yes, yes!

is home to . .Integrity .

And, today is wrkSHap | kiloWatt’s 2-year anniversary.

If you need an architect, historic preservation consultant, a manager for your construction project to help you understand the construction schedule and budget, concept designs to sell your real estate properties, or a one-on-one racial equity consultant/writer/workshop presenter, contact the owner, kennedy, here: wrkSHapkiloWatt.com.

Visit the link in bio, click on the ‘Contact’ tab, and complete a project request form 😊

12/30/2022

For the last of 2022, ending the year by highlighting examples of unredacted facts of history in the Twittersphere.

They put the "who" in the "who did what to whom," thus unredacting the facts of history to tell a fuller story. Feel free to add others😊

and, be kind to yourself + others

12/23/2022

For , a bit of inspiration as we close 2022 and step into 2023:

I am encouraged this Friday. Great to see that the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation () updated their equality/equity bicycle visual and how the change came about. After receiving unsolicited feedback on the graphic, RWJF surveyed their newsletter subscribers and implemented the feedback they received from 1,000+ respondents. This feedback loop is equity in action, participatory design. It is empathy in action.

From the article, written by RWJF's Creative Services Officer/Brand Officer, Joan Barlow:

The feedback they received on the initial visual, "led to many conversations, and they reinforced our view that our bike visual did not work well for everyone. So we concluded that it might be time to refresh it."

I commend the awareness and accountability. Joan concludes, "I have always believed that good design advances conversations and makes choices clearer. With our new equality/equity visual, we hope we have done that. I try to approach this, and all design challenges, with empathy for the audience. I think that makes me a better designer. But this one is very personal to me, as I know firsthand the importance of equity and removing barriers."

If a participatory process can happen for graphic design, then it can happen for another field of the arts, yes? Perhaps, the art of writing historical narratives in the active voice instead of the passive voice?

I reflect on these questions and I reflect on what Joan said, "empathy for the audience" as I advocate for replacing the passive voice with the active voice in historical narratives about slavery, lynching, i.e., Black History/US History/White History.

If we can design with empathy for the audience, then we can write with empathy for the audience. And, …

(continued in the comments)

12/09/2022

Hello there!

This week’s is a follow-up to last week’s post about that I shared earlier this week. Enjoy your weekend + be kind to yourself + to each other.

Fresh off of watching
twice on Sunday, this interview, his handling of the photo felt like a spectacle, a "slavery photo spectacle".

Seeing McFarland pull out the photo, the spectacle of it all, had me saying to myself, "Nope!"

mentions in his interviews about NOPE that a "good miracle" accompanies a spectacle. Perhaps the "good miracle" of this spec. is a spotlight on the horror of US chattel slavery and the harm its memory or lack thereof continues to cause today.

As I type this I am hearing
on the Podcast bring up poignant points about this spectacle:
"Joey McFarland said in the event of his death, that the picture would go to a museum ... If you know anything about slavery, Masters freed slaves after they died."

Joey McFarland did not think he did anything wrong.

continues: "I don't understand the dissonance that exists sometimes with the White counterparts that we share our community with."

This entire spectacle is all the more reason why teachers should be free to teach honest, truthful, (un)redacted history.

Writers, journalists, history professionals should be free to communicate this (un)redacted history as well.

Revisiting this thread to add a quote that I read after sharing this reflection. It relates to this “slavery photo spectacle,” especially this part:
“… this country has been wildly careless with Black bodies, Black stories, Black truths.”

12/09/2022

Hello there!

This week’s is a follow-up to last week’s post about that I shared earlier this week. Enjoy your weekend + be kind to yourself + to each other.

Fresh off of watching
twice on Sunday, this interview, his handling of the photo felt like a spectacle, a "slavery photo spectacle".

Seeing McFarland pull out the photo, the spectacle of it all, had me saying to myself, "Nope!"

mentions in his interviews about NOPE that a "good miracle" accompanies a spectacle. Perhaps the "good miracle" of this spec. is a spotlight on the horror of US chattel slavery and the harm its memory or lack thereof continues to cause today.

As I type this I am hearing
Van Lathan Jr] on the Podcast bring up poignant points about this spectacle:
"Joey McFarland said in the event of his death, that the picture would go to a museum ... If you know anything about slavery, Masters freed slaves after they died."

Joey McFarland did not think he did anything wrong.

Van Lathan Jr] continues: "I don't understand the dissonance that exists sometimes with the White counterparts that we share our community with."

This entire spectacle is all the more reason why teachers should be free to teach honest, truthful, (un)redacted history.

Writers, journalists, history professionals should be free to communicate this (un)redacted history as well.

Revisiting this thread to add a quote that I read after sharing this reflection. It relates to this “slavery photo spectacle,” especially this part:
“… this country has been wildly careless with Black bodies, Black stories, Black truths.”

12/02/2022

Welcome to !

interviewed producer Joey McFarland at the film’s premiere. In the interview, he said the following quote as he held the original photo of Gordon, a Black man enslaved by White people in the US. Gordon is the central figure of Emancipation, portrayed by Academy Award Winner Will Smith.

"Sadly not many artifacts have been preserved, curated, protected."

Who, who has not preserved, curated, protected Black artifacts?

: Sadly, White people have a legacy of not preserving, curating, protecting Black artifacts.

Really weird to see a White man wax poetically in the passive voice about what happens to artifacts, esp. Black artifacts as he holds one in his hand. It's giving speaking in the third voice about oneself.

Case in point, from an article about the National African American Burial Site in NYC's Lower Manhattan (see tweet for link to source):
"In this abbreviated story one will find evidence of White objectification of the African American past and living present, instrumental stereotyping, deafness and entitlement, and adamant control and containment constituting avarice and blindness to the evidence of Black humanity and competence.

The African Burial Ground Project also shows the existence of anti-racist Whites who joined in our research and gave other kinds of support. These were White people capable of following those who do not look like themselves, which is uniquely exceptional for Whites."

Such an odd commentary about an artifact that he should have donated to a Black history, i.e., American-US History, i.e., White History museum.

It's also giving John Oliver's commentary on museums and Britain's paternalistic treatment of Greek artifacts that explorers from their country stole and have yet to return.

Also curious to know if Mr. McFarland loves history and preservation enough to donate to Black-led non-profits who are preserving Black historic sites.

And, the ancestor’s name was Gordon, not Peter.

09/03/2022

Friday for Fri., Sept. 2, 2022, continued

The (un)Redactacted Tweet
…

Tweet unRedacted:

The Brigham Young University Athletic Department banned a White fan from all athletic venues after he called a Black Duke volleyball player “nigger” every time she served during a match

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