A: It's Black History Month
Happy Black History Month everyone! 
How are you celebrating? How is your LO's daycare or school celebrating?
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My school does verrrry little for Black History Month. =( I made a book display in the library, and I teach a section on the American civil rights movement in my elective class.
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We don't do anything to celebrate and neither does LO's daycare.
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Happy Black History Month! My gallery is putting on a show and tons of programs dealing with African American history, issues of racism, etc this month. I'll encourage my students to attend.
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I'm interested to see responses to this. LO is too young now, but I'd like to do something about it as she gets older. We're white, so I want to make an effort to keep her aware of racial issues, especially living in the South.
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I am sure both DCP and 1st grade will cover it but I haven't seen the calendars for February yet to see how much!
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DD1 is 3.5 and daycare is spending a whole week celebrating black history month. I've only quickly glanced at the calendar so I'm not sure what they're exactly doing.
At home probably nothing. I think she's still too young to understand racial issues. She's from a mixed family living in a predominantly white suburban neighborhood. so I'm sure it's a subject we will be tackling soon enough.
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My work is doing a month long series of discussions about the intersectionalities of being black (such as being black and LGBT, being black and international). It looks wonderful and I"m planning to go to at least two of the discussions.
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My son is 4 and his school is very diverse- love it! I know they have great programming for this month.
They spoke a lot about MLK last month and I was talking to my LO before bed about MLK and how everyone is different and that makes us all special, we should all be kind to one another and appreciate differences-- he is all boy and his teacher must have mentioned how MLK died and all he wanted to talk about was that MLK got shot. With a gun. He was shot. He even knew the name James Earl Ray! I kept bringing it back to my message, but he was fixated on the gun part. Might not have gone there yet if I was teaching pre-school- so I've learned, keep the message very simple and clear! -
@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: when I first saw the subject and who posted it I thought, "Oh no, don't tell me SHE doesn't know why!!"
I'm not sure LOs school is going to do much because they did a week of learning about Martin Luther King Jr. I even went to school and read a story about Dr. King to them.
At home we celebrate Black History throughout the year because it's important for us that she knows where she came from and about the people that paved the way. But maybe we will get a couple of new books or introduce some people she hasn't heard of before.
My job will celebrate. We have an annual Black History Month celebration dinner done by the Black affinity group. I wrote a Black History month feature where I interviewed seniors who live in a building named after the man who started us celebrating Black History in this country. It was so interesting because I thought a lot of the seniors would say people who were long gone but a lot of them said President Obama because they'd never thought they'd see a Black president in their lifetimes. I also interviewed an aerospace engineer who was the first Black woman to get a phd from NASA...so cool!
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We are having a few Black History Month events at work this month and I don't think H's school is doing anything to celebrate.
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@RLCeigh:
That's a bit much for 4 year olds!
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@RLCeigh: that's weird! My LO has no idea MLK was shot...we didn't tell her and of course her school didn't either. That seems like TMI for that age. Wow.
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@mrsjazz:
ha ha
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Good question. I am trying to find something for LO. We already a read some books with Afro-Caribbean themes (reflective of my culture), but we'll probably add some things. When we first stated dating, I used to e-mail DH black history facts every day for a month (he is not Black).
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@MRSJAZZ @REGBERADAISY- right?! I was caught off-guard, I don't really think he knows what it means. Not great when I was going for a message of peace and it turned into my stance on gun violence!
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@Torchwood: the good thing about celebrating black history month it doesn't have to be all about the heavy stuff. Here's some fun things you can do that is strictly culture related. Make some soul food aka this would be making Thanksgiving dinner in February in my house. Or better yet go to a Soul food restaurant. Pick up a book by a black author or prominently featuring black people. See a theatrical production or art exhibit by and about black people. Tune into black morning radio like the Tom Joyner Morning Show they celebrate Black History 365 days a year with a daily Little Known Black History fact.
The other day I pulled out my childhood copy of Pass It On: African- American Poetry for Children and started reading it to my baby. A non-black friend of mine turned me on to books by Ezra Jack Keats. He said the books are the most AMAZING children's books he's come across and just so happens the characters are white. He bought a bunch for his 4 year old. Does anyone have any of the Keats books?
My American Girl Addy had a craft book. I remember it taught you how to make a doll out of seeds or something and how to quilt. Addy was a slave so the quilt craft was a lesson on hidden messages to guide runaway slaves during the Underground Railroad.
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@mrsjazz: you are doing the most! That's awesome.
Years ago I attended a community event that discussed how parts of where I live now became racially segregated. Not being from my state I missed all of that local history in school. It was very interesting to see how immeninent domain disrupted once thriving communities.
@MrsKoala: that's really neat! I probably know more non-American blacks as an adult than I did as a kid and their experience is so different from my own. Eugene Robinson wrote a book called Disintegration and one of the chapters was dedicated to "new face" of black people- international & biracial.
I don't have anything special planned
I'lol have to see what's going on locally.
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If you don't know, now you know!
Frederick Douglass the Google Doodle and more
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/01/living/frederick-douglass-google-doodle-black-history-month-feat/index.html
I'lol have to see what's going on locally.
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