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 […]
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 […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/ML-King-Day-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/15/2001 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Transcript It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day today, a time for tributes to this remarkable leader and peace-maker. One of the forms those tributes has taken is in the dozens of books for children and young people that […]
Here’s Jim Haskins with a review of Judith and Dennis Fradin’s Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.
It’s Maya Angelou’s birthday today, and Jim Haskins has some thoughts about her life and work to celebrate the occasion.
University of Florida professor Jim Haskins shares the story of W. E. B. Du Bois for Black History Month.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Rosa-Parks-Day.mp3 Author Jim Haskins Air Date 12/1/1999 Rosa Parks Day Transcript Here’s Jim Haskins, with some thoughts for Rosa Parks Day. Rosa Parks, it is said, refused to move from the seat she had taken at the front of that Montgomery, Alabama, bus on December 1st, 1955 because she was, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week.mp3 Author Jim Haskins Air Date 10/18/1999 Teen Read Week Transcript This is Teen Read Week and we’ve asked Jim Haskins, one of our leading authors of books of non-fiction and biography for teenagers, for his thoughts about that perennial question: how do we get teens to read more in […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Alice-Childress.mp3 Author Jim Haskins Air Date 10/12/1999 Alice Childress Transcript Alice Childress was a woman of firsts. Born on October 12th in Charleston, South Carolina in 1920 and raised in New York City, in 1952 she went on to write the first play by an African American woman to be […]
