Some starter links:
(for Twitter newbies/avoiders, you don’t have to have your own twitter account to read tweets in a hashtag or other timeline – just click on a user or hashtag link and start reading)
If you’re looking for some themed books/activities recommendations for youngsters:
To honor the amazing achievements of black people throughout the world, members of the Multicultural Kid Blogs are going to highlight a person or event in the Worldwide Civil Rights Movement and link up to the blog hop here. This way there will be one place for all to come and gather some of the history. We invite you to share your activities about the Civil Rights Movements as well here. To help you get started I thought I would share some general Civil Rights Movement picture books…
Lauren Chief Elk preempts the annual tantrum:
Does anyone else wonder whether the tantrum-throwers really truly cannot see the institutional power/dominance implicit in not needing to place an adjective in front of “History” in order to find historical works that feature or even include any information about the lives of people of one’s own ethnocultural heritage (or gender/sexuality etc)? I tend to conclude that the media pundits and political figures who trot the “bbbbut wheeeen is White History Month?!?” bilge out every year are knowingly cynical hypocrites myself.
Please use this thread to discuss any aspect of the Black History Month celebrations that has caught your interest.