Freedom We Singis a poem. It’s a poem about Black Futures – acknowledging the past in honesty, creating visions and working toward a good, holistic, free future. Helping kids focus on the here and now – the only place we have the power to work for collective liberation. Stories of B...
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67. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Buy on Amazon Add to library This poetic classic of the autobiography genre is a testament to human strength and resilience. In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou tells the story of her earlier years, tracing her life from...
In 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges changed history by becoming the first black child to desegregate an all-white elementary school by herself. Watch ourvideo about Ruby Bridges, which tells the story of how she overcame many obstacles to integrate into William Frantz Elementary School, showing g...
My Family Divided: One Girl's Journey of Home, Loss, and Hopeby Diane Guerrero and Erica Moroz: Actress Diane Guerrero tells the story of her undocumented immigrant parents being taken from their home, detained and deported when she was a child in Boston. ...
have your students read and research an influential poet, writer and musician. Then have them create a poem, song or story of their own. At the project’s completion, you can hold a “poetry slam” or “open mic night” where students can volunteer to perform their songs or read their ...
"A child is born with no state of mind/ Blind to the ways of mankind/ God is smiling on you, but he's frowning too/ Because only God knows what you'll go through/ You'll grow in the ghetto living second-rate/ And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate." ...
In the Caribbean, as in Africa, slave women were highly valued for their labour, not simply as childbearers. Overseers were predominantly male slaves and slave men in general benefited from women's domestic labour. A planter's wife commented on this: A wife and family ... have been the...
was invited to the swearing-in ceremony by First Lady Jill Biden and follows in the footsteps of inaugural poets Maya Angelou and Robert Frost. During her reading, Gorman wore a ring with a caged bird, a gift from Oprah for the occasion and tribute to symbolize Angelou and her autobiographic...
or a child of either a donor, faculty member, or staff to remain in place. Thus, affirmative action for the SCOTUS Supermajority only matters in discussions about race, and for them, the only way to end race-based policies is to remove race from consideration. Justice Brown Jackson ...