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Tag Archives: Black History month
In War and Peace
What happens when peacetime resembles war? I will be pondering this question in coming weeks as we celebrate Black History Month, also known as African-American History Month here in the U.S.A. This year there will be a special focus on the … Continue reading
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Tagged "Hamlet", African-American History Month, All-American Boys, Amadou Diallo, Angie Thomas, Anthony Baez, Black History month, Black Lives Matter, Brendan Kiely, Canaan White, Damian Duffy, Eleanor Bumpurs, Harlem, Henry Dumas, hip-hop "Hamlet", How It Went Down, I Am Alfonso Jones, Jason Reynolds, John Jennings, Kekla Magoon, Kindred, Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, Max Brooks, Michael Stewart, New York City, Octavia Butler, police violence, racism, Sergeant Henry Johnson, Stacey Robinson, teenager, The Harlem Hellfighters, The Hate U Give, Tony Medina, World War I
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Cracking Codes and Making History: Then and Now
What connects award-winning graphic author/illustrator Gene Luen Yang and film luminary Orson Welles? Both have cracked codes—figuratively, and in Yang’s case literally, too—and made history. Welles did this back in the 1930s and 40s, when kids sometimes thought that access … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930s films, 1930s Macbeth, American Born Chinese, Bill Foster, Black History month, Black Macbeth, Boxers and Saints, Chinese-American, code switch, computer programming, Craig Voe, Gene Luen Yang, graphic novels, jewel theft, Jonathan Cash, Macbeth, Mike Holmes, mystery, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Norris Borroughs, Orson Welles, racism, Secret Coders, Sonny Lieuw, Superman, teen, The Last Airbender, The Shadow Hero, The Untold History of Black Comic Books, tween and up readers, upper elementary readers, Voodoo Macbeth
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