Tag: African American Literature
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Dr-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/15/2007 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Transcript It’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and his life and legacy are central to the growing number of works for young people about him. Books like Diane McWhorter’s A Dream of Freedom, The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968. This […]
Sad-Faced Boy
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Arna-Bontemps-The-Sad-Faced-Boy.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/21/2006 Sad-Faced Boy Transcript “That year, our first in northern Alabama, we lived beside a country road that was so red it might have been made of brick dust.” Thus begins Arna Bontemps’ story about how he came to write Sad-Faced Boy, his third children’s […]
Jim Haskins: African America’s Biographer
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jim-Haskins-African-Americas-Biographer.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/26/2005 Jim Haskins: African America’s Biographer Transcript Jim Haskins passed away this summer. He was very well-known as a writer of biographies and other works of non-fiction for children, young people, and adults, and he was my friend and colleague in the English Department […]
Patchwork Paths and Homemade Love
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Patchwork-Paths-and-Homemade-Love.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/22/2005 Patchwork Paths and Homemade Love Transcript In her new picture book, The Patchwork Path, A Quilt Map to Freedom, Bettye Stroud tells the story of a young African American girl, Hannah, and her father who escape from slavery in the pre-Civil-War American South. Hannah’s […]
Love to Langston
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Love-to-Langston.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/1/2005 Love to Langston Transcript It’s the beginning of Black History Month, and it’s also the birthday of one of America’s best-known African American poets, Langston Hughes, who was born in 1902. He’s the subject of a recent biography for young people, Love to […]
Augusta Baker
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Agusta-Baker-Storyteller-Supreme.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/23/2004 Augusta Baker Transcript Augusta Baker was an exceptional librarian who made many contributions to the improvement of children’s services during a stellar career that spanned five decades. She began working in 1937 as assistant children’s librarian at the 135th Street Branch of the […]
Every Tone a Testimony: An African American Oral History
That's a haunting field call that was recorded in 1950. It's part of a two CD African American oral history called "Every Tone a Testimony."
Conjure Times: Black Magicians in American
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recessmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Conjure-Times-Black-Magicians-in-America.wav Author John Cech and Jim Haskins Air Date 2/5/2002 Black Magicians in American Transcript David Blaine, who has been called the “hip hop Houdini,” a young, and – according to his various descriptions of his ethnic origins, Puerto Rican, Italian, Russian, Jewish, African American – is one of the […]
Zora Neale Hurston
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Zora-Neale-Hurston.mp3 Author Debra King Air Date 1/7/2002 Zora Neale Hurston Transcript Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama, though she would also claim that she was born in Eatonville, Florida, in 1901. That was just like Zora, the novelist, to rearrange the facts a little […]
Fly High! The Story of Bessie Coleman
A new picture book for younger children about Bessie Coleman, the first African American to become a pilot, has flown into the bookstores just in time for National Aviation Month, which is celebrated in November.