Gregory Cooke's Contact Details

Gregory Cooke's Company Details

Basil and Becky Educational Foundation

N/A, N/A, US • 5 - 9 Employees
Non-Profit

How do young Americans make sense of this world? How do they discover where they "fit in" when so many pieces of the puzzle are missing? This is a dilemma and we need to reinvent a culture for learning in America. The work of the Basil and Becky Educational Foundation seeks to make history relevant to generations of young people who deserve to know on whose shoulders they stand.Our history gives us the opportunity to feel pride in our heritage but only if we can identify. African Americans made enormous sacrifice to this country without recognition or inclusion in the popular news or historical record. The Basil and Becky Educational Foundation is committed to filling in the gaps of a history virtually devoid of racial diversity.We are educators; we know what appeals to this tech-savvy generation. So, we make documentary films that are engaging.Using high tech media, we deliver a wealth of historical, cultural, psychological and social information for and about African Americans - information that never made it into textbooks, information missing from the general consciousness of America.The Foundation works to capture in recorded personal interviews the real life perspectives of African Americans who lived the history. This is primary source material on civil rights, military history, law and gender studies. Distinguished historians, sociologists, and psychologists provide the context that elevates those conversations on film into the realm of irrefutable historical testimony.