Tag: Black History Month
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 […]
Black History Month
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Black-History-Month.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/1/2001 Black History Month Transcript That’s Medicine Man Ya-Ya reciting the last part of Maulana Karenga’s Libation Statement that opens the CD, “Teach The Children,” a collection of songs and prose poems, that celebrates famous African American figures in our history. There’s Harriet Tubman, […]
Walter Dean Myers
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Walter-Dean-Meyers.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/29/2000 Walter Dean Myers Transcript In our continuing programs in celebration of Black History Month, a writer for children and young adults who must be mentioned is Walter Dean Myers. Among his many distincitons, he’s a five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award […]
Helen Levitt’s Children
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Helen-Levitts-Children.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/25/2000 Helen Levitt’s Children Transcript Four girls are walking down the sidewalk, their backs to us. It is summer, and they are dressed in shorts and sundresses. It’s a gritty, stained street. Three of the girls are black, and one is white, but they […]
Faith Ringgold
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Faith-Ringgold.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/24/2000 Faith Ringgold Faith Ringgold is a remarkable African American artist and writer, and Black History Month is a good time for every child to become familiar, if they aren’t already, with her stunning work. Her artistic career began with pictures that drew their […]
W. E. B. duBois
University of Florida professor Jim Haskins shares the story of W. E. B. Du Bois for Black History Month.
African American Dick and Jane
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/African-American-Dick-and-Jane.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/18/2000 Dick and Jane Transcript The Dick and Jane readers that most baby boomers and pre-boomers learned their alphabets from first appeared in 1930. The idea was the brainchild of Zerna Sharp, a reading consultant, who thought that children could best learn how to […]
Books for Black History Month
Here's Linda Lamme with some books she'd like to recommend for Black History Month.
Willie Mae
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Willie-Mae.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 2/1/2000 Willie Mae Transcript When I was growing up in Arkansas in the early fifties, my grandmother had a woman who came to work at her house several times a week. She was black, and her name was Willie Mae. You see, my […]
Black History Month Websites
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Black-History-Websites.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 1/31/2000 Black History Month Websites Transcript Koren Stembridge is on the internet for us, with some information about Black History Month, which begins tomorrow. February is Black History Month, the perfect time to log on to the web with your child to visit the […]