Tag: Langston Hughes
First Books for African American Children
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/First-Books-for-African-American-Children.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/20/2007 First Books Transcript Before the 1950s, there was very little that an African American child could look at or read that reflected his experience, fostered a pride in his heritage, or inspired him in any way. As Barbara Bader notes in her book […]
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 […]
Remembering 9/11 in Poetry
That’s Tahkus Ekedal singing the first verse of Ted Arnold’s setting of Emily Dickinson’s poem, “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” from the CD “The Days Gone By, Songs of the American Poets.”
Langston Hughes
Here's Jim Haskins with some thoughts about the life and work of Langston Hughes.
Langston Hughes
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Langston-Hughes.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/2/2000 Langston Hughes Transcript What better place to begin Black History Month than with Langston Hughes, who reminds us of the poetry–singing, ringing, soaring, impassioned poetry that is such an essential part of the African American experience. A lesser known aspect of Hughes’s creative […]
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 […]
Books That Last
https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-That-Last.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/22/1999 Books That Last Transcript This is John Cech for Recess!, and we’re speaking today with Mrs. Delphine Jackson of Gainesville, Florida. She’s the director of the Willie Jackson Youth Foundation and a bookstore for children called The African Violet. I wonder if you could tell about some of the books […]