Bridging Generational Gaps Through Out-of-Classroom Intergenerational Experiences

African American communities have for centuries ensured continuity of their identities and culture through passing down stories. In the process of leveraging social media and other contemporary tools, our community's elders, particularly those from the Silent Generation, the Baby Boom Generation, and Generation X worry that our narratives are being lost and an intergenerational gulf is opening. This article details one effort to bridge that generation gulf, while seeking to take what occurs in the academy-in the classroom and elsewhere on campus-and apply it outside academic institutions.