EPISODE · Feb 4, 2021 · 21 MIN
Episode 156 - Suggestions for Black History Month 2021
from Middle Country Public Library Podcast · host Middle Country Public Library
This week we are kicking off this year's Black History Month with some suggestions of movies, books, and music highlighting African-American authors, actors, musicians, and more. Here are links to what we discussed in this episode: Kevin Hart's guide to black history [DVD-videorecording] / directed by Tom Stern I am not your Negro [DVD-videorecording] / Magnolia Pictures presents ; directed by Raoul Peck. And still I rise : black America since MLK : an illustrated chronology / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kevin M. Burke Bartlett's familiar black quotations : [5,000 years of literature, lyrics, poems, passages, phrases and proverbs from voices around the world] / Retha Powers, general editor ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Black Gotham : a family history of African Americans in nineteenth-century New York City / Carla L. Peterson. Black roots in Smithtown : a short history of the Black community / by Bradley Harris The music of black Americans: a history Julian Bond's time to teach : a history of the southern civil rights movement / Julian Bond ; edited by Pamela Horowitz and Jeanne Theoharis ; foreword by Pamela Horowitz ; introduction by Jeanne Theoharis ; photographs by Danny Lyon ; afterword by Vann R. Newkirk II The entertainer [sound recording] / Scott Joplin Howlin' Wolf the Definitive Collection [sound recording] / Howlin' Wolf 4Ever [sound recording] / Prince The Centennial Collection [sound recording] / Robert Johnson Hollywood Africans / Jon Batiste Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners
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This week we are kicking off this year's Black History Month with some suggestions of movies, books, and music highlighting African-American authors, actors, musicians, and more. Here are links to what we discussed in this episode: Kevin Hart's guide to black history [DVD-videorecording] / directed by Tom Stern I am not your Negro [DVD-videorecording] / Magnolia Pictures presents ; directed by Raoul Peck.And still I rise : black America since MLK : an illustrated chronology / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kevin M. BurkeBartlett's familiar black quotations : [5,000 years of literature, lyrics, poems, passages, phrases and proverbs from voices around the world] / Retha Powers, general editor ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Black Gotham : a family history of African Americans in nineteenth-century New York City / Carla L. Peterson.Black roots in Smithtown : a short history of the Black community / by Bradley HarrisThe music of black Americans: a historyJulian Bond's time to teach : a history of the southern civil rights movement / Julian Bond ; edited by Pamela Horowitz and Jeanne Theoharis ; foreword by Pamela Horowitz ; introduction by Jeanne Theoharis ; photographs by Danny Lyon ; afterword by Vann R. Newkirk IIThe entertainer [sound recording] / Scott JoplinHowlin' Wolf the Definitive Collection [sound recording] / Howlin' Wolf4Ever [sound recording] / PrinceThe Centennial Collection [sound recording] / Robert JohnsonHollywood Africans / Jon Batiste Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners
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