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While white conservatives like Ron DeSantis are on a mission to whitewash black history and erase it entirely from schools, Jesse Williams counters their efforts in a uniquely entertaining way.
Jesse Williams ignited Broadway as a gay professional baseball player with an eye-opening and thirst-inducing performance in Take Me Out. Now he’s returning to his activist roots with his latest project.
Tony Award-nominated actor and concept artist Glenn Kaino has teamed up for Homeschooled, a brand new gaming app for gamers of all ages that will teach and celebrate diversity in the United States through trivia.
Pop culture will be the focus of the app and will include categories like Growing Up Black, Soul Brothas, and Divas. There will also be multiple choice sections on sports, geography and internet and even a Grey’s anatomy Science-related questions section, a nod to Williams’ role as Dr. Jackson Avery is in ABC Medical Drama.
Each category has a time limit and players can compete against family, friends and celebrities.
Jesse Williams says it’s time to teach ourselves something
Per the Huffington Post, the father of two, said: “You have to be more self-sufficient if you want your history to be taught because we have this war on non-white history in American schools. They’re not going to teach us about black history or brown history or Asian history in school – OK, how can we teach ourselves that?”
Before he got into acting, Williams taught at a high school in Philadelphia. He said the app is a product of the shift to homeschooling at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the sudden retreat to diversity education in many conservative-run states.
On the app, he acts as the “dean of culture” and hopes to recruit more guest lecturers.
“A lot of my work revolves around serious social justice work, those things that really need our sober attention,” he explained. “Of course that has priority. But people of color also like to play, have game nights, and be spontaneous and have fun and be creative, and we often get boisterous. We are not included in these games and do not see ourselves in them.
home schooled can be downloaded on the App Store and Googe Play by clicking here.
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