BLACK HISTORY MONTH SOCIAL ACTIVITY TOOLKIT
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For more than 90 years, we have chosen February to mark the unique history, extraordinary challenges, and broad contributions of African Americans in the United States.
With this toolkit, WORLD Channel invites you to engage your families, communities, and organizational constituencies in artistic expression, historical reflection, and the chance to promote the positive contributions of the people and communities that represent you.
Use the EASY ACTIVITIES and MEDIA LINKS in this toolkit on your own, with friends and family, or in your workplace or community space.
This Black History Month, WORLD invites you to watch and engage with critically important film and TV content, such as the historical documentaries on our flagship series, “AMERICA REFRAMED…”
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#WORLDx BHM SOCIAL ACTIVITY TOOLKIT 2 AMERICA REFRAMED: FEBRUARY 2018
for ahkeem a documentary film
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GENTLEMEN OF VISION FOR AHKEEM Follow a year in the life of coach, Expelled from high school, Daje Shelton is counselor, and founder, Marlon Wharton, only 17 years old when she is sentenced and his class of young Black males as he by a judge—not to prison, but to the strives to rewrite future prospects for his Innovative Concept Academy. It offers students. Witness a brotherhood of young Daje one last chance to earn a high school men as they support each other and chase diploma. For Ahkeem is an unvarnished their ultimate dreams: to maintain their exploration of a complex web of juvenile position as national step champions and justice, education, poverty and race in to be accepted into college. PREMIERES America today. PREMIERES FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 6, 2018 AT 8/7C. Available to 13, 2018 AT 8/7C. Available to view view online here. online here.
AGENTS OF CHANGE BADDDDD SONIA SANCHEZ Agents of Change examines the racial The personal is political. BaddDDD Sonia conditions on college campuses across Sanchez is a portrait of the artist, revealing the U. S. in the late 1960s, focusing her uncompromising life as she raised on student demands at two seminal her voice in the name of black culture, protests: San Francisco State in 1968 and civil rights, women’s liberation, and Cornell University in 1969. Many of the world peace. The film captures Sanchez’s same demands are surfacing in campus commitment to cultural specificity while protests today, revealing the intersections connecting history and humanities to the America continues to face. PREMIERES mainstream. PREMIERES FEBRUARY 27, FEBRUARY 20, 2018 AT 8/7 C. Available 2018 AT 8/7. Available to view online to view online here. here.
#WORLDx BHM SOCIAL ACTIVITY TOOLKIT 3 ACTIVITY ONE YOUR POETIC VOICE: BLACK HISTORY MONTH HAIKUS
Inspired by Black Arts Movement poet Sonia Sanchez, we invite you to find your poetic voice this Black History Month. Try your hand at creating haikus inspired by images and ideas from WORLD’s Black History Month films and leaders or artist you especially admire. Additional images can be found, here.
-- Post your haiku and the image that inspired it on social media with the hashtags #WORLDxBHM #BLACKHISTORYPBS #HAIKU #BADDDDDSONIASANCHEZ
-- If working in a group, read your haikus aloud to one another, and post them online.
HOW TO HAIKU: Haikus are a traditional Japanese form of poetry that is easy and fun to create. They typically consist of seventeen syllables organized in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables each. Haikus can break this form if needed to fit a complex idea into the poem. Haikus do not need to rhyme.
In BADDDDD SONIA SANCHEZ, the artist shares excerpts of 10 haiku (for Max Roach) from her book Morning Haiku. Below are the first and last haikus of that work as examples to follow…
MODEL: #1 HAIKU #10 HAIKU FOR MAX ROACH FOR MAX ROACH
Five syllables Nothing ends Your hands Seven syllables every blade of grass shimmering on the Five syllables remembering your sound legs of rain.
Listen to Sonia Sanchez read the full poem on NPR: NPR.ORG/TEMPLATES/STORY/STORY.PHP?STORYID=103122530 If you need more support, see this step-by-step process to creating haikus in TEACH Magazine: TEACHMAG.COM/ARCHIVES/7894
#WORLDx BHM SOCIAL ACTIVITY TOOLKIT 4 ACTIVITY TWO BRIEF BIOS: BUILDING BLACK HISTORY, ONE PERSON AT A TIME
Elevate the visibility of historical and present day Black American leaders and innovators by posting at least one Brief Bio per week to social media throughout Black History Month. -- Mix and match the Brief Bios offered here or create your own. Be sure to use the hashtags #WORLDxBHM #BLACKHISTORYPBS #UNSUNGBIOS with your posts.
CLAUDETTE COLVIN, WAS MUHAMMAD ALI WAS A FANNIE LOU HAMER, KEY AN ALABAMA TEENAGER HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING PLAYER IN ORGANIZING WHO REFUSED TO GIVE CHAMPION DURING THE MISSISSIPPI’S FREE- UP HER SEAT TO A WHITE 1960S AND PERHAPS DOM SUMMER FOR SNCC PASSENGER ON A BUS THE MOST CELEBRATED AND VICE-CHAIR OF THE AND WAS ARRESTED NINE SPORTS FIGURE IN MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM MONTHS BEFORE ROSA AMERICAN HISTORY. DEMOCRATIC PARTY. PARKS.#WORLDXBHM“ #WORLDXBHM“ #WORLDXBHM“ #UNSUNGBIOS #UNSUNGBIOS #UNSUNGBIOS
BRIEF BIOS FROM THE FILM BRIEF BIOS FROM AMERICAN AGENTS FOR CHANGE: HISTORY: »» Danny Glover is an award-winning American »» Daisy Bates, Civil Rights activist known for her work actor, producer, and philanthropist who was also in support of the Little Rock Nine, the nine Black a member of the Black Student Union at San students who were attending an all-White school Francisco State University that helped establish a in Little Rock, Arkansas as part of desegregation. Department of Black Studies in 1969. #WORLDxBHM #WORLDxBHM #BlackHistoryPBS #UnsungBios #BlackHistoryPBS #UnsungBios »» Bayard Rustin, one of the main organizers of the »» Harry Edwards, Ph.D. is an American sociologist Civil Rights Movement and advisor to Dr. Martin and Civil Rights activist who advocated for Luther King, Jr. Many believe his contributions have Black American presence in professional sports been overlooked due to Rustin being openly gay. and participated in the 1969 takeover at Cornell #WORLDxBHM #BlackHistoryPBS #UnsungBios University. He became a professor at UC Berkeley. #WORLDxBHM #BlackHistoryPBS #UnsungBios »» Barak Obama attended Harvard Law School, became a community organizer in Chicago, and was »» Zachary W. Carter is the former U. S. Attorney for elected to the state legislature, the U.S. Senate and the Eastern District of New York, and a criminal court became the first African American president of the judge despite being convicted in the 1969 takeover United States. #WORLDxBHM #BlackHistoryPBS at Cornell University while protesting in support #UnsungBios of a Black Studies Department. #WORLDxBHM #BlackHistoryPBS #UnsungBios »» Aretha Franklin is a singer and songwriter from Detroit who has won 18 Grammy Awards, is credited »» Irene Smalls, award-winning author, historian, and for with helping to take blues music to broader literacy entrepreneur, was a member of the Black popular audiences; she is the first woman of any race Student Union and a participant in the student to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. strike that led to the first Black Studies Department #WORLDxBHM #BlackHistoryPBS #UnsungBios and School of Ethnic Studies at Cornell University. #WORLDxBHM #BlackHistoryPBS #UnsungBios
#WORLDx BHM SOCIAL ACTIVITY TOOLKIT 5 ACTIVITY THREE THE WISDOM OF YOUTH: VIDEO CLIPS & QUOTES
The young men of GENTLEMEN OF VISION, in many ways, have had to grow up quickly and with the mentorship of Coach Wharton exhibit a kind of wisdom that many don’t obtain until much later in life.
View the following short video clips, on your own or in a small group, and… -- Post one or more of the clips to your social media accounts and reflect on the wisdom in the clip that appeals or relates most to you. -- If viewing the clips in a group setting, watch them all and discuss which character’s perspective is most compelling and why. -- Identify a specific quote from one or more of the video clips that exemplifies a message you want to send and post the quote to social media with a link to the video. -- Be sure to tag your post #WORLDxBHM #BLACKHISTORYPBS #SHOWMESTEP
VIDEO CLIPS: • GENTLEMAN OF VISION TRAILER (http://bit.ly/2mwqdIr or http://bit.ly/ARF_GOV)
• DARIAN (http://bit.ly/2cRFptj) In this one-minute clip, Darian (“Prodigy”) talks about avoiding negative influences in his life and engaging in positive activities instead. What influences a young person’s decision to go down a certain path in life, and what can others do to help them make good choices?
• TEVIN (http://bit.ly/2d3D4is) In this short clip, Tevin (“Half-Pint”) reflects on his relationship with Coach Wharton, whose “tough love” can sometimes be difficult to appreciate. How can high expectations benefit young people, and how can mentors and other adults maintain positive relationships with youth while still instilling in them a sense of discipline and structure?
• CAMERON (http://bit.ly/2cbk7oR) In this one-minute clip, Cameron (“Tin Man”) talks about having to take over as the “man of the house” when his father didn’t fulfill that role. How are expectations for young men different than those for young women, and what added pressures come along with those expectations?
* Videos and content for this activity were produced by the Nine Network of Public Media for the CPB-funded project American Graduate. For more Gentlemen of Vision content, visit AMERICANGRADUATE.NINENET.ORG/GOV/
#WORLDx BHM SOCIAL ACTIVITY TOOLKIT 6 ACTIVITY FOUR DECLARE YOUR INSPIRATION ONLINE
In FOR AHKEEM, Daje Shelton is encouraged to persevere by her mother and educators, but the birth of her son offers a new inspiration and direction for her energy. Each Friday in Black History Month, we invite you to record a short video or capture an image of a person, place, or issue that motivates and inspires you.
-- Post an image or video with a short description of your inspiration to social media
-- Tag with #WORLDxBHM #BlackHistoryPBS and use the the film title FOR AHKEEM as the formula for a secondary tag #FOR(NAME).
-- Review all the posts tagged with #WORLDxBHM #BlackHistoryPBS and select at least one to repost to your account with a short note about why the post appeals to you.
FOR EXAMPLE: If it weren’t for my 8th grade teacher, I wouldn’t have thought college was a possibility because of my financial circumstance. He helped me understand my real potential. Thank you! #WORLDxBHM #BlackHistoryPBS #ForMrB
Seeing Barack Obama become President of the United States changed everything for me. Now I know I can be president too! #WORLDxBHM #BlackHistoryPBS #ForBarack
Watching our U.S. team compete at the Olympics reminds me to strive harder for the things I want to achieve. These young people are amazing! #WORLDxBHM #BlackHistoryPBS #ForUSOlympicTeam
Mom, just seeing everything you do for me and our family is my biggest inspiration. I want to be as strong and as good a person as you are every day. #WORLDxBHM #BlackHistoryPBS #ForJoanne
#WORLDx BHM SOCIAL ACTIVITY TOOLKIT 7 TAKE ACTION: NOW SHARE THIS!
Join the movement to enlighten and engage this year by sharing our films and other programming on social media. You can find a collection of images for Black History Month to use online here.
-- Remember to tag your posts with #WORLDxBHM #BlackHistoryPBS
-- And link to www.worldchannel.org/WORLDxBHM
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