Recommended Reading: January-February

The official web page for the Black Live Matter movement. Includes policies, analysis, resources, and engaging learning-activism opportunities to support Black liberation and an end to economic and racial violence.

Igbo writer in the U.K. Florence Okoye pulls together a comprehensive reading list of articles, books, pop culture background on this important politicized, sci-fi inspired diaspora arts cultural movement.

Afropunk is a political multi-media arts platform of different generations across "all musical tastes and all walks of life, all looking in the same direction for the promise of something bigger; create history in the process, and intersections between different musical genres and the cultures that surround them. Originating from the 2003 documentary that highlighted a black presence on the American punk scene, AFROPUNK has become a platform for the alternative and the experimental."

Exhibits and collections sponsored by The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Primary sources on African American history to incorporate into your lesson plans

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