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From the Ted Talk by Julieanna L. Richardson: The mission to safeguard Black history in the US

Unscramble the Blue Letters


We have such an opportunity to make canhge. Our cwres have traveled to 413 cities and towns across the United States. Our collection is housed permanently in the Library of Congress. Our digital archive, thanks to the computer geniuses at Carnegie Mellon, is now accessible wdrdloiwe 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on all kinds of plbtorae devices and computers and pehons. We have interviewed, as I said, thousands of African American leaders. There is Alonzo Pettie, the oldest living Black cowboy; Katherine Dunham, the inventor of Black dance; Katherine Johnson, the NASA scientist whose story was portrayed in the movie “Hidden Figures”; potes nkkii givnonai and Sonia Sanchez, and Ursula Burns, the first bclak female CEO of a Fortune 500 company. We are now the digital repository for the Black exeenirpce, and it will include those digitized copies of the family heirlooms that I spkoe of us losing.

Open Cloze


We have such an opportunity to make ______. Our _____ have traveled to 413 cities and towns across the United States. Our collection is housed permanently in the Library of Congress. Our digital archive, thanks to the computer geniuses at Carnegie Mellon, is now accessible _________ 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on all kinds of ________ devices and computers and ______. We have interviewed, as I said, thousands of African American leaders. There is Alonzo Pettie, the oldest living Black cowboy; Katherine Dunham, the inventor of Black dance; Katherine Johnson, the NASA scientist whose story was portrayed in the movie “Hidden Figures”; _____ _____ ________ and Sonia Sanchez, and Ursula Burns, the first _____ female CEO of a Fortune 500 company. We are now the digital repository for the Black __________, and it will include those digitized copies of the family heirlooms that I _____ of us losing.

Solution


  1. black
  2. giovanni
  3. change
  4. nikki
  5. crews
  6. experience
  7. worldwide
  8. phones
  9. spoke
  10. portable
  11. poets

Original Text


We have such an opportunity to make change. Our crews have traveled to 413 cities and towns across the United States. Our collection is housed permanently in the Library of Congress. Our digital archive, thanks to the computer geniuses at Carnegie Mellon, is now accessible worldwide 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on all kinds of portable devices and computers and phones. We have interviewed, as I said, thousands of African American leaders. There is Alonzo Pettie, the oldest living Black cowboy; Katherine Dunham, the inventor of Black dance; Katherine Johnson, the NASA scientist whose story was portrayed in the movie “Hidden Figures”; Poets Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez, and Ursula Burns, the first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company. We are now the digital repository for the Black experience, and it will include those digitized copies of the family heirlooms that I spoke of us losing.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
african american 4
tuskegee airmen 4
american history 3
black people 3
estate sale 3
black community 3
george washington 2
sophomore year 2
oldest living 2
living black 2
civil rights 2
rich black 2
american leaders 2
early interview 2
colonel bill 2
bill thompson 2
montford point 2
black children 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
oldest living black 2
african american leaders 2
colonel bill thompson 2

Important Words


  1. accessible
  2. african
  3. alonzo
  4. american
  5. archive
  6. black
  7. burns
  8. carnegie
  9. ceo
  10. change
  11. cities
  12. collection
  13. company
  14. computer
  15. computers
  16. congress
  17. copies
  18. crews
  19. day
  20. days
  21. devices
  22. digital
  23. digitized
  24. dunham
  25. experience
  26. family
  27. female
  28. fortune
  29. geniuses
  30. giovanni
  31. heirlooms
  32. hours
  33. housed
  34. include
  35. interviewed
  36. inventor
  37. johnson
  38. katherine
  39. kinds
  40. leaders
  41. library
  42. living
  43. losing
  44. mellon
  45. movie
  46. nasa
  47. nikki
  48. oldest
  49. opportunity
  50. permanently
  51. pettie
  52. phones
  53. poets
  54. portable
  55. portrayed
  56. repository
  57. sanchez
  58. scientist
  59. sonia
  60. spoke
  61. states
  62. story
  63. thousands
  64. towns
  65. traveled
  66. united
  67. ursula
  68. week
  69. worldwide