The City of Brotherly Love celebrates Black culture all year long, and Black History Month offers a special opportunity to reflect on the Black experience, commemorate the many contributions of Black figures throughout history, and pave the way for a more just and equitable future. This Black Hi...
MLB launches Black History Month initiatives Major League Baseball today announced the launch of a new MLB Originals Series“Undeniable – Stories from the Negro Leagues,”a contemporary storytelling platform to amplify and honor the legacy of the Negro Leagues.Undeniable, MLB’s first-ever animated ...
February is Black History Month. Help your students learn about and celebrate the important Black contributions to the American and global story with our cross-curricular lesson plans, worksheets, projects, quizzes, and activities below. Why Do We Teach Black History Month? As with any number of...
If we learned anything over the past few years, it’s thatBlack History Monthis both incredibly important to this country and a woefully inadequate substitute for integrating all peoples’ histories into our understanding of what the U.S. was and is. In short, by know we should all be pret...
First published in 1983, the Nobel laureate’s only short story is a formal experiment that both stokes and defies our expectations, a chess game she’s destined to win. As 8-year-olds, Twyla and Roberta are “dumped” for four months into a home for runaway and orphan girls; as Twyla...
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The Black History Month theme this year is “Black Resistance,” acknowledging that Black Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression, in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial pogroms and police killings.
3. Write short stories and biographies Ask students to create a “Black History Month Book” by researching a famous Black figure and writing a fictionalized short story or biography based on real events. 4. Conduct a famous African American military member research assignment ...
Black History Month, or African-American History Month, is observed in the United States every year in February. Throughout the month, institutions and schools acknowledge and share the contributions, achievements, and experiences of Black Americans. With the following 29 quotes—one for each day ...
For Black History Month, Watch These Impactful, Uplifting Movies and TV Shows Don't miss these films and television series, from somber and thought-provoking to moving to hilarious, that weave together diverse threads of the Black experience. ...