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Write about something you have learned, something you have experienced, a fact about Black history, something you wanna see change, etc.

Looking for more resources to educate youself, share with others, etc? Check out this link!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tSDACkXEWvCQ8-RRe-nGpSd9HabxFKzHWk8r_D0GzlQ/edit?usp=sharing

Have resources to add to this list?
email: khanf6963@parkwayschools.net or studentsprogressivechange@gmail.com

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Black History Month - Central High Student 

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Black History Month - Central High Student 

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Black history month is something that happens every year but the information doesn't seem to grow with me. While there is tons of Black history not only in the United States but in Africa and all over the world. It seems like all we ever get to hear about is slavery and the civil rights movement. Books like Stamped and books by James Baldwin and Toni Morrison taught me more black history than any classroom. Black history is so much more the a month or Martin Luther King Jr. It is full of Athletes like Muhammad Ali and musicians like Louis Armstrong. History is still being created today by people like former president Obama and  Simone Manuel the first African American to win a swimming individual medal in the olympics. While Black history is honored durning this month it is so much more than that.

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The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture has an incredible list of programs, initiatives, and experiences this month in celebration of Black History Month! Check it out! Author interviews, lectures, activities and more! 

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The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture has an incredible list of programs, initiatives, and experiences this month in celebration of Black History Month! Check it out! Author interviews, lectures, activities and more! 

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Born in New Canton, Virginia, in 1875, Carter G. Woodson would never see the first Black History Month. The historian, best known for his 1933 book "The Miseducation of the Negro," recognized throughout his studies the dearth of African Americans in the nation's curriculum.

To stem the tide and bring to the fore those lost voices, Woodson founded in 1915 the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and launched the following year The Journal of African American History.

Seeking to bring even more stories of African Americans to light, in 1926 Woodson founded the first Negro History Week. This was timed in February to coincide with Abraham Lincoln's and Fredrick Douglass's birthdays. It wasn't until 1976 that President Ford extended the observation to a full month - one honoring the contributions of black Americans to this day.

For Woodson, such associations and commemorations provided a kind of "real education" - one that "inspires people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better."
This week and throughout February, the Museum is celebrating Black History Month with a host of new programs, initiatives and experiences:

Uplifting the Black Family: NMAAHC Black History Month Social Media Campaign
NMAAHC's social media platforms will explore The Black Family: Representation, Identity and Diversity, the theme for 2021 selected by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, an organization created in 1915 by Carter G. Woodson-known as the Father of Black History Month. The daily, digital conversation will amplify the museum's Black History Month programming and will share century-old stories, dynamic photographs and items in its collection and family history resources. The public can view this year's Black History Month social media campaign by following @NMAAHC ​​​​​​on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

NMAAHC's Newest Online Exhibition: "Pauli Murray's Proud Shoes: A Classic in African American Genealogy"
This inspirational exhibition, formerly only available to the public through a visit to the museum, has now gone digital. Pioneering lawyer, Episcopal priest and activist, Pauli Murray (1910-1985), is the author of a major African American genealogy work, Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family. Released 20 years before Alex Haley's Roots, her book is regarded as an early but often overlooked exploration into ancestral connection. In the book, Murray dissects the racial and social dynamics between the union of a free black family from the North and a mixed-race family in the South. The online exhibition features an interactive story map with detailed documents, photos and video of Murray's life and her role as a member of the Fitzgerald family, fighting for freedom and justice in the South and beyond. This exhibition is available for viewing athttps://nmaahc.si.edu/proud-shoes.

Feb. 21-Feb. 27; kickoff Feb. 21 from 12 p.m.-3 p.m. ET
African Americans In STEM Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
In collaboration with blackcomputeHER, the museum celebrates National Engineering Week with the African Americans in STEM Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon. Participants will create and edit Wikipedia pages for African American STEM professionals highlighting the impacts on their communities, nation and the world. The creation and editing of Wikipedia pages will benefit K-12 students and teachers by sharing the narratives of African American STEM professionals, past and present. Participants should create a Wikipedia account before the start of the Edit-a-Thon. Training will be provided for new editors during the kickoff event. Q&A sessions will be available each day for those participants looking to make edits during the week. Admission is free; however, registration is required athttps://nmaahc.si.edu/events/upcoming.

Tuesday, Feb. 23 (program occurs biweekly on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Artists at Home: School Outreach
Adapted from the museum's summer program, "Artists at Home" is a digital interactive program designed to engage students with hands-on artmaking and conversations about African American artists and different visual art genres. Each hour-long session, led by an NMAAHC educator, encourages participants to make art using household materials and discuss the featured artist work. February's sessions will focus on the works of Wadsworth Jarrell and word portraits. Educators and academic institutions are encouraged to register for this creative program designed for the at-home classroom. This program is for students from grades six-12. Admission is free; however, registration is required at https://nmaahc.si.edu/events/upcoming.

Tuesday, Feb. 23; 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. ET
Historically Speaking: COVID-19 and the Economy
In this program moderated by Michael Fletcher, senior writer at ESPN's Undefeated, panelists will focus on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the economy and the African American community. Panelists Michelle Singletary, personal finance columnist at the Washington Post, and Algernon Austin, senior researcher at the Thurgood Marshall Institute, will discuss this economic issue and how the community can prevail with critical interventions. Admission is free; however, registration is required at https://nmaahc.si.edu/events/upcoming.

Friday, Feb. 26; 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. ET (program occurs every Friday)
NMAAHC Kids: Joyful Fridays
Joyful Fridays welcomes children every Friday in February to create art that celebrates Black joy, history and culture. This special program is inspired by the museum's Joyful ABC's activity book series, which features activities, museum objects and new words based on characteristics featured in the book, A is for All the Things You Are: A Joyful ABC Book. In its first installment, February's Joyful Fridays will focus on activities inspired by the themes of letters C-F: Creative, Daring, Emotional and Fair. To prepare for the activity, registered participants will receive a list of accessible supplies needed, recommended books and links to online resources in the museum's early childhood Learning Lab collections the Monday before each program. Participants can prepare for this program series by building an at-home creativity kit. This program is for children ages 4 through 8. Admission is free; however, registration is required athttps://nmaahc.si.edu/events/upcoming.

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Born in New Canton, Virginia, in 1875, Carter G. Woodson would never see the first Black History Month. The historian, best known for his 1933 book "The Miseducation of the Negro," recognized throughout his studies the dearth of African Americans in the nation's curriculum.

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In recent years, I have heard a call from my students and colleagues to teach about the contributions people of color have made to our world and society, in addition to teaching about slavery and civil rights. German 1 and 2 students have created brief profiles featuring famous Afro-Germans. These, along with some Wiki

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Interesting Article about the history of tipping in America...essentially the practice really took off during Reconstruction.  Following slavery, Black people who did not sharecrop, found work as railroad porters, waiters, servers, etc.  Businesses that  hired them did not pay them a wage.  Their only wage was the tip they may or may not receive.

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Interesting Article about the history of tipping in America...essentially the practice really took off during Reconstruction.  Following slavery, Black people who did not sharecrop, found work as railroad porters, waiters, servers, etc.  Businesses that  hired them did not pay them a wage.  Their only wage was the tip they may or may not receive.

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https://time.com/5404475/history-tipping-american-restaurants-civil-war/

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Sometimes people want to make a difference, but do not know what that means. Check out this article from Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance) to aid you on your journey.

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Lorena Germán has worked in education for nearly 20 years. As director of pedagogy at EduColor, chair of the National Council of Teachers of English Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English and co-founder of Multicultural Classroom, she has advocated for culturally sustaining pedagogy and practices. Nearly three years ago, Germán joined together with educators Tricia Ebarvia, Dr. Kim Parker and Julia E. Torres to form #DisruptTexts, a grassroots movement encouraging K-12 English teachers to rethink their approach to teaching the "classics," including deciding whether they need to teach them at all. In 2019, she published The Anti Racist Teacher: Reading Instruction Workbook, a resource to help educators develop anti-racist practices in their ELA classes. And late last year, Germán sat down with then-TT Professional Development Manager Val Brown to discuss the damage white supremacy causes in education-and the uplift inherent in reimagining the process. Their conversation, included here, has been edited for length and clarity.

"Interrupting white supremacy," "decolonizing education," "developing abolitionist education"-people use these phrases but aren't always sure what they mean. How would you define these terms as they relate to your practice?

White supremacy literally means that whiteness is supreme over others. We see that present in our values as a nation, in our culture, in our ways of being and, therefore, embedded in all of our systems.

When a lot of people think of white supremacy, they connote white men in hoods on corners screaming racial slurs and doing extreme things, but white supremacy could be used interchangeably for racism.

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What it Means to Be an Anti-racist Teacher

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Skip to main content Lorena Germán has worked in education for nearly 20 years. As director of pedagogy at EduColor, chair of the National Council of Teachers of English Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English and co-founder of Multicultural Classroom, she has advocated for culturally sustaining pedagogy and practices.

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Helping ourselves and each other understand the complexity of the human experience should be a goal we all share at PCH. Black history is an essential element of the history of Spanish speakers, as well! As a PCH Spanish teacher, I recognize the importance of creating opportunities to talk about Afro-latinx identity, history and contributions to not just US history, but the history of countries throughout North and South America!  Here's to Celia Cruz, Roberto Clemente, Victor Cruz, Zoe Saldana, Adriano Espaillatt, Soledad O'Brien, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Graciela Dixon, Miguel Cabrera, Mariah Carey, Tatyana Ali, María Isabel Urrutia, Christina Milian, Bruno Mars, and countless other Afro-latinos that make our world a richer place.
~A. Williamson

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I learned about the term pigmentocracy. I had always obviously known that lighter skin tones were more often seen in postions of power, but the term for it could possibly allow more government officials to recognize and push for a change!