In Hillmantok, digital HBCU, separate in the session
Lea Barlo, a professor of liberal studies at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, is ready to teach her introduction to study US -African studies in this semester as you always do: I have developed a curriculum, set the tasks and created a TIKTOK account to make materials that can be accessed as possible.
Spread Video clip on January 20 Welcome 35 students in the course. By the next morning, it appeared in the algorithm of enough Tiktok users that 250,000 people participated with it channel.
Within a few days, video clips of Dr. Barlo inspired a loose subsidiary of black teachers, experts and content creators to form what has become known to the University . Colleges and universities
In the lectures that were delivered in TIKTOK lengths, and in longer sessions on Tiktok Live, trainers teach lessons in gardening, organic chemistry, cooking arts and other topics. At the recipient, the organizers say an audience with about 16,000 registered users.
“I think this was in the development of this in Ivory Tower to get the ability to speak. This is something that I find beautiful and necessary,” said Dr. Barlo in an interview with her last week from her office in Greensoro, North Carolina.
The appetite for information also comes at the dawn of the second Trump administration. Dr. Barlo published her video hours after President Trump swore the constitutional oath and quickly began to dismantle federal programs that enhance diversity, fairness and integration. Many academics fear a tremendous influence through education.
“I certainly think that the political time and the environment are filled with a lot of disagreement,” said Dr. Barlo.
Watch Cierra Hinton, a former mathematics teacher in Augusta, Georgia, and the founder of Hillmantok, the original publication of Dr. Barlo and some early videos inspired by it. “Did you wake up in Hilman?” I remembered, in reference to Hilman College, and the fictional HBCU that appeared in “The Cosby Show” and Spinoff, “a different world”. The name of the movement was born.
Kennddrick Pringley, advertising and DJ in Tamba, Florida, was among the thousands of Tiktok users who stumbled on the original function of Dr. Barlo. Now he is the head of the Student Union at HillMantok and part of a group of about 40 content creators who have turned into volunteers who saw an opportunity to organize.
In the face of uncertainty about the education policy in the future of the Trump administration’s second future, Mr. Bringley said that the “Social Media University” can provide space to confront the wrong information on the Internet.
He said: “Education has become limited, covered, silent and silent.” “This is a moment and a movement that the masses can learn everything they should really know.”
Hillmantok organizers built a WebsiteWith the completion of the course of the training course and the registration page, and it started providing regular updates on Hillmantok Tiktok account. There is a board of trustees and the students ’board of directors; Many members of both bodies spent long nights in zooming, creating an official structure for Hillmantok.
“We are walking together to make sure that everyone has a chance to teach free and fair,” said Mr. Bringley.
When Brandi Smith encountered the page of Dr. Barlo, I was disappointed to find that the chapter was not open to the audience. However, Mrs. Smith, who joined the Faculty of Salman before graduating from the College of Arts and Design in Savana The curriculum was published by Dr. Barlo She started holding study sessions on her TIKTOK page, including topics such as documentary “13” by director Ava Duvernay; Songs “This is America” by Fedish Gambino and “The Revolution will not be broadcast” by the Scott Heron generation; An episode of the TV program “Atlanta”; And the article “Why will I not vote“By web du bois.
“It was an opportunity to interact with black women at a level that really spoke with my soul,” said Ms. Smith.
And Andre Ishaq, Professor of organic chemistry at the Faculty of the Holy Cross in Worsester, Massachusetts, Hilmanoc presented an opportunity he had dreamed of long ago: Use it Follow up the following social media To exchange his passion for chemistry and teaching.
“We need to erase scientific illiteracy in our country,” said Dr. Ishaq. “I want to do my role in making people understand the molecules in the skin care products they use, and when we say the word acid, what does this mean at the molecular level?”
Dr. Ishaq said that about 1,000 people signed Zoom or Tiktok Live to hear the first Hilmanoc lecture. Since then, about 3000 people have registered On his website To receive training course materials, including recorded lectures, lessons plans, homework duties, and even tests, along with an open source textbook and a Discord discussion channel, correspondence application.
Dr. Ishaq was particularly excited to help remove mystery from a topic often seen as unknown.
He said: “The tuition fees nowadays are expensive, so many people cannot get it, especially many black and brown children.” “If they only have an understanding of what it looks or maybe a leg in terms of materials, this would help build their elasticity and enthusiasm on the subject.”
Dominic Kinsler from Orlando, Florida, Hylamanoc to change the perceptions of another topic that many see have a big barrier to enter: gardening.
She said: “Every time I learn something I want to study for other people.” “It is a lot during work,” referring to her career as a quarre, “but she is a passion. It does not seem to be a routine work.”
Mrs. Kinsler learned herself on the park during the epidemic, and attracted hundreds of thousands of followers with the educational videos that she publishes under the handle of social media,, Pharmunique. So when Hillmantok grew up, the 101 gardening category looked natural.
Ha The first Hillmantok video He received about 1000 views within 30 minutes and more than a million views the next day. She received an excited response to her chapter Hillmantok, she is working on a textbook. Simple approach: to teach people how the gardens in the space they have.
Ms. Kinsler said that Hilmanoc came to a “pivotal turning point”, especially when it comes to the influence of politics and misleading.
“People have a little fear of what education will look like in the future – will we be able to learn these things?” She said, adding that the last federal Tijook banned exaggerating this fear. (The application shortly stopped working this month before returning to life after Mr. Trump said that he would sign an executive thing that delays the ban on the ban).
Now, with Hillmantok, people follow a different approach, Ms. Kinsler said: “Let me get a notebook. I want to learn.”
Or in the case of Mrs. Kinsler, fresh plants instead of pen and paper.
For their final project, the followers of Mrs. Kinsler Hilmanuk will be asked to show the fruits of their work: a video clip of their final garden.