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James Baldwin on Integration

Posted on February 26, 2018 | Leave a comment

“Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?”

The Fire Next Time (1963)

Excerpted from: Shapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

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Cultural Literacy: Chinua Achebe

Posted on February 26, 2018 | Leave a comment

It’s Monday morning, and here in New York City we’re just back from the Presidents’ Day Week break. Here, to start of the week–and post the first of the final three entries for Black History Month 2018–is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Chinua Achebe.

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Dr. King on Human Development and Social Change

Posted on February 23, 2018 | Leave a comment

“It is historically and biologically true that there can be no birth and growth without birth and growing pains. Whenever there is the emergence of the new we confront the recalcitrance of the old. So the tensions we witness in the world today are indicative of the fact that a new world order is being born and an old order is passing away.”

Martin Luther King, Jr., Address at First Annual Institute on Nonviolence and Social Change, Montgomery, Alabama, 3 December 1956

Excerpted from: Shapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

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The Weekly Text, February 23, 2018, Black History Month 2018, Week IV: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Posted on February 23, 2018 | Leave a comment

This is the last Friday of Black History Month, 2018, so this is by definition the final Weekly Text for the month. I’m actually publishing this from my phone, since I am away from New York (but on an Amtrak train on my way back right this minute).

Here is a reading on Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the great men of my lifetime. You might be able to use this comprehension sheet which accompanies the reading. Finally, here is an Everyday Edit on Martin Luther King, Jr. (and you can get lots more Everyday Edits from the good people at Education World.

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Malcolm X on Subject and Object

Posted on February 15, 2018 | Leave a comment

“We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, my brothers and sisters, Plymouth Rock landed on us.”

Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Excerpted from: Shapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

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Cultural Literacy: Nelson Mandela

Posted on February 15, 2018 | Leave a comment

Here is a Cultural Literacy Worksheet on Nelson Mandela. I miss him. He is someone everyone in the world should know about.

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Clifford Brown, 1930-1956

Posted on February 15, 2018 | Leave a comment

“U.S. jazz trumpeter and principal figure in the hard-bop idiom. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, he became the most influential trumpeter of his generation, inspired by Fats Navarro to combine technical brilliance with lyrical grace in his playing. After touring with Lionel Hampton’s big band in 1953, he worked with Art Blakey; in 1954 he and drummer Max Roach formed a quintet that became one of the outstanding groups in modern jazz. He died in a car crash at age 25.”

Excerpted from: Stevens, Mark A., Ed. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Encyclopedia. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 2000.

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Cultural Literacy: Jazz

Posted on February 15, 2018 | Leave a comment

You might find that this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Jazz nicely complements the post on the late, great Clifford Brown above it. “Brownie,” as his friends and colleagues called him, was a major influence in the genre and still an unmitigated joy to hear.

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Langston Hughes on the Beauty of Blackness

Posted on February 15, 2018 | Leave a comment

“It is the duty of the younger Negro artist…to change through the force of his art that old whispering ‘I want to be white’ hidden in the aspirations of his people to ‘Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro—and beautiful.’”

Langston Hughes, The Nation, 23 June 1926

Excerpted from: Shapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

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Cultural Literacy: Spirituals

Posted on February 15, 2018 | Leave a comment

Since we as a society have decided that music education is somehow superfluous to the edification of children, I don’t know whether you’ll be able to use this Cultural Literacy worksheet on spirituals. I hope so.

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