for black history month, our school organized a movie night and screened four little girls, the spike lee documentary about the 16th street church bombing in birmingham, alabama in 1963 that killed four girls. i'm a little torn about black history month activities in schools. ideally, we would cover black history throughout the year and there would be no need to celebrate it heavily during one month of the year. but you know what? we aren't there yet. so in february we had a night of black music/culture/art, we had an assembly where three religious leaders spoke about their work for civil rights, and we had almost 100 kids come to this movie night. the movie begins with this song, which i had never heard before (how is that possible?!) and found beautiful and quite moving.
"birmingham sunday," by joan baez:
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