This year, the Black ABCs are celebrating their 50th anniversary with an exhibition at the University of Chicago Art Incubator called S is for Soul Sister. Titled “S is for Soul Sister,” the exhibition features portraits of Williams and some of “his” colleagues with an audio component that allows visitors to recall the day the photo was taken. The photographs on these student postcards were taken by children in Chicago. The postcards were originally made in Chicago public schools, then distributed nationwide, and are now posted on such popular sites as Pinterest and Etsy. Between cancellations and closings, an art exhibit celebrating Black ABC’s 50th anniversary will be open for a limited time. When “he” did the interview, the letters were behind him, and I said: “What? These letters were in California, and I thought, ‘These letters got here on the West Coast.’ And that’s when I knew this was it. We grew up on the Harold Ickes projects when we were kids, and we all went to Henry Boots kindergarten, Reese said. The projects were developed in 1970 by two Chicago teachers with the help of the Visual Education Society, which was popular at the time and developed educational materials. On the back, for example, are learning exercises and an African-American character whose first or last name begins with that letter. The goal was to use the cellular themes recorded when they were received, explains photographer and neuroscientist Okunola Jayifus. Since the 1970s, these letters have been used in public schools across the country to help students read. Cheryl Reese, who made the letter T, explains that the community is an important part of its history. The letters Williams talks about are black alphabets. Her goal is to inspire black children through representation and education. The backdrop for their portraits was an artistic representation of their own cells, which were taken from them on the day of the photo shoot. Teachers wanted to provide African American students with educational materials that would better reflect their community. I saw a television show in the 1990s where Tupac was interviewed at the school, Kevin Williams said.