Episode 89: Tales By Moonlight: Storytelling for Youths and Elders in a Historically Black Community with Bukky Akinwale

The Behaviour Speak Podcast

Episode 89 is special for me as I get to discuss my favourite thesis of all time written by Bukky Akinwale, a grad student at the University of North Texas. Bukky presented this work to a standing ovation at the 2022 Black Applied Behavior Analysts conference. In her thesis, she teaches two wonderful girls, Maliyha and Chevelle, to request, listen and recount stories from Ms. Alma Clark, a 94-year-old Elder and one of the last surviving residents of Quakertown. Quakertown was a thriving community that formerly enslaved people established in Denton, Texas after Juneteenth until 1921 when the White community voted to turn Quakertown into a municipal park.

Continuing Education Units (CEUs): https://cbiconsultants.com/shop

• BACB: 1.5 Learning
• IBAO: 1.5 Cultural
• QABA: 1.5 DEI

Links to Maliya and Chevelle Interviews:

Maliyha: https://youtu.be/XtzDTCIbhNQ

Chevelle: https://youtu.be/kVUQ3124_JU

Contact Bukky:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bukkyakinwale11

Behaviour Speak Podcast Episodes Referenced:

Adrienne Bradley Episode

https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-76-the-next-generation-of-black-leaders-in-behavior-analysis-empowering-success-with-adrienne-bradley-med-bcba-lba/

Malika Pritchet Episode

https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-83-the-ethics-of-research-applying-a-human-rights-and-social-justice-lens-with-dr-malika-pritchett/

Links:

All God’s Children Need Travelling Shoes - Maya Angelou

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/3909/all-gods-children-need-traveling-shoes-by-maya-angelou/

Stamped From The Beginning

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ibram-x-kendi/stamped-from-the-beginning/9781568584645/?lens=bold-type-books

Tkemlups Residential School

https://tkemlups.ca/kirs/

White Lilacs Book

https://books.google.ca/books/about/White_Lilacs.html?id=uwH8cWK7GQIC&redir_esc=y

Research Referenced:

Leaf, J. B., Townley-Cochran, D., Taubman, M., Cihon, J. H., Oppenheim-Leaf, M. L., Kassardjian, A., . . . Pentz, T. G. (2015). The teaching interaction procedure and behavioral skills training for individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder: A review and commentary. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2, 402–413. 10.1007/s40489-015-0060-y

Leaf, J. A., Leaf, J. B., Milne, C., Townley-Cochran, D., Oppenheim-Leaf, M. L., Cihon, J. H., Taubman, M., McEachin, J., & Leaf, R. (2016). The Effects of the Cool Versus Not Cool Procedure to Teach Social Game Play to Individuals Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 9(1), 34–49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-016-0112-5