What We Do

Media.Entertainment.Education
Those are our domains. Within them, here are some of the services that we provide:  

BackList Shop
Visit our online store to purchase some of our kick-butt products such as:

Personalized, signed copies of THE MESSAGE
Teacher's Companion for THE MESSAGE

BackList Speaks
BackList develops and provides innovative, engaging, and educational programming for both youth and adult audiences. We facilitate writing, publishing, and creative workshops, seminars, discussions, and lectures for schools (elementary, middle, and high school), after school initiatives, summer camps, universities, organizations and other entities. Programming is designed and customized based on specific needs and preferences.

We've:

Facilitated a six-week creative writing workshop at the SEED School of DC. The high school participants had their work included in a print anthology that they named The Young & Unique
Facilitated SOUNDTRACKS, workshops that use music as a hook at nearly every branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library
Provided interactive enrichment workshops to middle and high schools around the country
Facilitated trainings about culturally-responsive engagement to librarians and college professors
Acted as dynamic keynote speakers at universities and other educational institutions
Sat on a ton of panels on topics ranging from hip-hop to connoisseurship

Our speakers/workshop facilitators include:

Felicia Pride, our founder, who specializes in media, pop culture, hip-hop, literacy, entertainment, writing, and entrepreneurship
Annie Gordon, who specializes in education, leadership, and teaching

BackList Content Creation
BackList produces entertaining, engaging, uplifting, provocative, agitating, and educational content across genres, formats and styles.

Some of our content-based projects include:

THE MESSAGE Hip-Hop & Literacy Enrichment Program
The Bridge is Over: An e-resource for educators that focuses on harnessing the power of words in young people

BackList Events & Programming
BackList participates in and curates events that celebrate and/or promote the power of words and images. We organize panels, programming (for youth and adults), multimedia artistic showcases, nontraditional art events, and more.

Some of our clients have included:

Mosaic Magazine coordinate educational workshops for its annual literary conference
Up South plan and develop youth programming for its annual festival

BackList Consulting
BackList consults with writers, artists, organizations and companies regarding publications, projects, events, programming, and community initiatives.

We've helped:

Common Ground Foundation, an organization founded by rapper/actor Common, develop and launch a national online book club for teens
Black Maybe Films develop and write its inaugural script

BackList Publishing & Production
BackList develops innovative ways to promote the power of words and images to affect change in the lives of people and their communities.

Our production projects include: