Black History Month: The celebration of Black History Month began as “Negro History Week,” which was created in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, a noted African American historian, scholar, educator. Find inspiring poems & readings for Sunday school, church services, & carol. The little boy was standing beside a sweet-faced woman in a long black veil. Was destined to lead his congregation through the worst tribulation in history.
James Brown. John Brown’s raid. Michael Brown. Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. These subjects braid through Kevin Young’s new book, Brown, as he creates poems about black culture and boyhood, dividing his collection into “Home Recordings” and “Field Recordings.” It publishes this week. “It’s a book that’s been brewing for a while,” Young told David Canfield of Entertainment Weekly. “The title poem is one I’ve been trying to write for some time, about growing up in Topeka, Kansas, and going to the church that Rev. Brown of Brown v. Board [pastored]. His daughter Linda played piano and organ in the church, and so to that connection to history always struck me as something worthy of a poem.” Young dedicates this title poem to his mother and it closes out the section of home recordings. He begins it: The scrolling brown arms/of the church pews curve/like a bone – their backs/bend us upright . . . In Brown, 31 poems thread from boyhood and back, with a Triptych for Trayvon Martin subdivided into Not Guilty [A Frieze for Sandra Bland]; Limbo [A Fresco for Tamir Rice] and Nightstick [A Mural for Michael Brown]. The book is illustrated with beautiful endpapers of a child’s drawing of a collection of superheroes and nine black-and-white photographs by Melanie Dunea. In January 2015, she traveled to the Mississippi Delta with Young, as he writes, “to capture the spirit of that place with a poetry that enhances my own.” Their pilgrimage took them to Greenwood, Miss, where the term “black power” was popularized at a Stokely Carmichael rally in 1966, and nearby Money, Miss., where Emmett Till was murdered. These poems call on the reader “to remember but also revisit and revise what we think of the past.” Young mentions in his notes that the white woman who accused Emmett confessed last year that he never whistled or called her baby. Filmywap. He didn’t do a thing. “The site of Till’s lynching,” Young reports, “feels both holy and haunted.” The 19 final lines of the book comprise a poem called “Hive.” It also concerns a boy: The honey bees’ exile them from hive he tried, walking Let him be right. who carries the entire unwashed hands, A Poem About Black Historybuzzing, unstung. Black history skits are a great way to teach children and even adults about black history. We hope to give a nice resource here for teachers, homeschool families, community groups, etc. to use in learning and teaching about black history. We will divide these into various categories as we (and hopefully some of you) develop this page. We would LOVE your submissions! Please submit your skits for us to publish on this website! We would love to share them with our readers!!! We are particularly interested in skits on The Civil Rights Movement, Slavery, The Underground Railroad, etc., but welcome any topic that would fit into this category. This would be a great writing assignment for any student, homeschool, public school or private school. And then to have it published on our website would be very exciting for them. We dream of a network of students and teachers sharing good quality skits and short plays with each other. Underground Railroad Black History Skits:
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