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Everyday Black History: Educational Guide to Incorporating Black History into your Homeschool Year-round
February is Black History Month and I would love to encourage all educators, parents and adults in general to incorporate these best practices into their daily lives throughout the year.Ā My definition of educator is very broad. If you have a sphere of influence to speak into the lives of future generations, then youāre an educator as far as Iām concerned. I believe in intentional education and thus we should never limit an entire groupās history and contributions to 28 days.
- Be intentional in your read alouds, independent reading and book list choices. Make sure that you incorporate books that provide a well rounded perspective on history, literature, geography, language arts and even math.Ā
- Diversify your homeschool social media feed. Connect with, read works by and learn best practices from other homeschooling parents and educators of colors.
1. Follow My Reflections Matter and incorporate their diverse resources to your educational plans.
2. Check out Negra Bohemian a self described: Ā a free spirit redefining motherhood through a socially conscious, faith-led and wandering lifestyle.
3. Check out Trippinā Momma to be inspired by a single mother whoās recovered from domestic violence and is exploring the world on her own terms.
4. Follow Dr. Kira Bank and her work on Raising Equity.
5. Follow my friend Sarahās adventures in her blog and be inspired to take adventurous trips with your kids to destinations like Dubai, Hong Kong and Kenya.
6. FollowĀ The Spring Break Family and be encouraged to take adventures with our kids even if theyāre not homeschooled.
7. Check out Our Kitchen Classroom and learn how to connect food with culture - travel.
If your a Christian, read this: No Days Off...
āThis February, lay down the burden of ambassadorship and let Black History Month be your swimming lessons. May it be a reminder that each stroke forward transforms our weaknesses into strengths, powerlessness into purpose. Weāre not treading water. Kingdom ambassadors make new wave moves. Look back and see how God is moving us forward.ā
Additional resources Click on bold sections for more information:
- Learn about Racial Identity from Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum.Ā
https://youtu.be/l_TFaS3KW6s
- Check out 100 Read Aloud Books for Black History and Beyond.
- 30 People from Around the World.
- Learn the truth about the Green Book by watching this documentary.
- Have your preconceived notions rocked by A blessed Heritageās writings on faith and black history.
- Host a Black Living History Wax Musuem event at your school, home or community.
- Black History is American History.
- Race: The Power of Illusion.
- Read about why Martin Luther King JR. Day is not a day off and start planning your service project for next January.
- Why we shouldnāt forget that U.S. presidents owned slaves.
Published on Feb 2, 2017
"When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, donāt forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life." This how poet Clint Smith begins his letter to past presidents who owned slaves. In honor of Black History Month, Smith offers his Brief But Spectacular take on the history of racial inequality in the U.S.
Learn about the musical, historical and African roots of Puerto Ricoās Bomba.
- Watch online Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement.
- 28 Ways to Celebrate Black History Month by the NAACP.
- Watch and be inspired by: Black Made That.
- Meet The Fearless Cook Who Secretly Fed ā And Funded ā The Civil Rights Movement.
- WatchĀ Kevin Hartās Guide to Black History on Netflix.
- Check out Wu-Tang Clan's GZA shows his genius in Liquid Science on Netflix.
- Add diverse puzzles by Puzzle Huddle to your bookcases.
- Decolonize your family bookshelves and learn more about awareness by following The Consious Kid.
- 28 More Black Picture Books That Arenāt About Boycotts, Buses or Basketball (2018).
- 5 Reasons You Should Celebrate Black History Month.
- Beyond The Painful Chains Of Slavery: Phillis Wheatley, The First Published Female African-American Poet.
- Continue learning throughout the year with various subscription options of the Because of Them we Can boxes.
- Check out Black Then for a wealth of information.
- Check out Story Corps:
StoryCorpsā mission is to preserve and share humanityās stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.
- Diversify your podcasts. A friend sent me this pod cast and I had to share: Black and White: Racism in America.
Exposure to Black Theater and Arts.
- Check out my review of Hamilton.Ā
- Go watch Black Violin.Ā
- Go see Alvin Ailey - American Dance Theater.
- Diversify your holiday traditions and enjoy the Hip Hop Nutcracker or the Urban Nutcracker.Ā
- Exposure to the history and sounds of Gospel music.
- Singinā Us to Glory: The Life and Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer.
- Black History Month is a chance for white parents to learn how to talk about racism.
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- Incorporate Black History Sites into your family travel. This has been a huge way for us to incorporate our story into our learning. These are some of our favorites or ones on our bucket list:
Ā 1.Ā National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.
You can read more about my familyās trip to this history packed museum by clicking here.
2. The Tuskegee Airman National Historical Museum in Detroit, Michigan.
3. The National Underground Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
You can read more about my familyās road trip to the freedom center by clicking here.Ā
4. Frederick Douglass National Historical Park in Washington, DC.
5. International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, NC.
6. Martin Luther King, JR Memorial in Washington, DC.
7. Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City, MO.
8. Museum of African American History in Boston, MA.
9. North Star Underground Railroad Museum in Ausable Chasm, NY.
10. Visit Marthaās Vineyard and learn about the Polar Bears.
- Check out this blog post with a large list of destinations to include in your Black History Travel Bucket List: Must See Destinations to Learn About Black History.
- Study the history of Soul Food and host a Soul Food Feast for family and friends.Ā
The Soul Food Born of the Harlem Renaissance.
Read An Illustrated History of Soul Food with your kids.Ā
This is a great video of the celebrates African American food and chefs.
- Teach the history of the Harlem Globetrotters and then enjoy aĀ game.Ā
- Take a #foodies road trip to some of Americaās top Soul Food Restaurants which are full of history, music and culture.
1. Sylviaās Restaurant in Harlem, NY.
2. Amy Ruthās in NYC.
3. Luellaās Southern Kitchen in Chicago, IL.
4. The Coast Cafe in Cambridge, MA.
5.Ā Roscoes Chicken and Waffles in Los Angeles, CA.
6.Ā Busy Bee Cafe in Atlanta, GA.
- Provide opportunities for your students to read, memorize and recite black poetry. Some of our favorites are.Ā
Let America Be America Again
Langston Hughes, 1902 - 1967
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamedā Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above. (It never was America to me.) O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe. (Thereās never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this āhomeland of the free.ā) Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark? And who are you that draws your veil across the stars? I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slaveryās scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seekā And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak. I am the young man, full of strength and hope, Tangled in that ancient endless chain Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land! Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need! Of work the men! Of take the pay! Of owning everything for oneās own greed! I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil. I am the worker sold to the machine. I am the Negro, servant to you all. I am the people, humble, hungry, meanā Hungry yet today despite the dream. Beaten yet todayāO, Pioneers! I am the man who never got ahead, The poorest worker bartered through the years. Yet Iām the one who dreamt our basic dream In the Old World while still a serf of kings, Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true, That even yet its mighty daring sings In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned Thatās made America the land it has become. O, Iām the man who sailed those early seas In search of what I meant to be my homeā For Iām the one who left dark Irelandās shore, And Polandās plain, and Englandās grassy lea, And torn from Black Africaās strand I came To build a āhomeland of the free.ā The free? Who said the free? Ā Not me? Surely not me? Ā The millions on relief today? The millions shot down when we strike? The millions who have nothing for our pay? For all the dreams weāve dreamed And all the songs weāve sung And all the hopes weāve held And all the flags weāve hung, The millions who have nothing for our payā Except the dream thatās almost dead today. O, let America be America againā The land that never has been yetā And yet must beāthe land where every man is free. The land thatās mineāthe poor manās, Indianās, Negroās, MEā Who made America, Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain, Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain, Must bring back our mighty dream again. Sure, call me any ugly name you chooseā The steel of freedom does not stain. From those who live like leeches on the peopleās lives, We must take back our land again, America! O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oathā America will be! Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plainā All, all the stretch of these great green statesā And make America again!
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, Iāll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? āCause I walk like Iāve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still Iāll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries? Does my haughtiness offend you? Donāt you take it awful hard āCause I laugh like Iāve got gold mines Digginā in my own backyard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, Iāll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like Iāve got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of historyās shame I rise Up from a past thatās rooted in pain I rise Iām a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak thatās wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.
Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the listāning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march on till victory is won. Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chastāning rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, Have not our weary feet Come to the place for which our fathers sighed? We have come over a way that with tears has been watered. We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, Out from the gloomy past, Till now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way; Thou who hast by Thy might, Led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray. Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee, Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee; Shadowed beneath Thy hand, May we forever stand, True to our God, True to our native land.
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
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