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Today (2/29) is a “bridge” day between Black History Month and the month in which the world observes International Women’s Day (3/8). To celebrate, ABHM brings you two powerful videos.
A powerful recitation by Alfre Woodard of Sojourner Truth’s speech, “Ain’t I a Woman?” (from YouTube)
And an exhibition, “MAMA: Motherhood Around the Globe,” at another entirely virtual museum, the International Museum of Women (www.imov.org). Here’s a video introduction to the Motherhood exhibit. mama.imow.org/healthymamahealthybaby
Read the article: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0229.html#article
Watch the video and read the article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/27/nyse-recognizes-african-american-pioneers_n_1304377.html?ref=black-voices
PBS Documentary and Multimedia Outreach Project Seeks Editing & New Media Interns
http://ddfr.tv/2011/08/digital-diaspora-family-reunion-seeks-interns/
Read the article: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/01/octavia-spencer-golden-globes-the-help.html
Read the article at The Washington Post website: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/octavia-spencer-of-the-help-wins-best-supporting-actress-oscar-for-role-she-inspired/2012/02/26/gIQAmFtkcR_story.html?tid=pm_national_pop
The growing African-American atheist movement wants to remind you that not all Black heroes found haven in the church. http://www.bet.com/news/national/2012/02/23/commentary-remembering-black-atheists-from-history.html
A new monument in Mississippi is honoring the last American slave to die. Read the article: http://www.theroot.com/monument-last-slave-to-die
The head curator for the national African-American museum tells The Root what goes into his job. Read the full article: http://www.theroot.com/views/how-curate-black-museum
NOTE: ABHM is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. Proceeds from the books you buy through the links below help us maintain this museum.
Arsenault, Raymond. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Bloom, Joshua and Waldo E. Martin Jr. Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013.
Branch, Taylor. The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Etheridge, Eric. Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders. Atlas, 2008.
Foner, Phillip S. (editor). The Black Panthers Speak. Haymarket Books, Third Edition, 2014.
Holsaert, Faith S. Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. First Illinois Paperback, 2010.
Jones, William P. The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
Joseph, Peneil E. Stokely: A Life. New York, NY: Basic Civitas Books, 2014.
King, Martin Luther (author) and James M. Washington (editor). A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. HarperOne, Revised Edition, 2003.
Lewis, John. Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change. New York: Hyperion, 2012.
Lewis, John with Michael D’Orso. Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace & Co, 1998.
Lewis, John and Andrew Aydin. March. Book One. Top Shelf Productions, 2013.
Marable, Manning. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. New York, NY: The Penguin Group, 2012.
Margolick, David. Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock. Yale University Press, 2011.
Mills, Kay. This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century). University Press of Kentucky, 2007.
Nichols, David A. A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Roberts, Gene and Hank Kilbanoff. The Race Beat: The Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2007.
Sullivan Patricia. Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement. New York, NY: The New Press, 2009.
Sugrue, Thomas J. Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North. New York, NY: Random House, 2008.
Watson, Bruce. Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America A Democracy. New York, NY: The Penguin Group, 2010.
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