Building a sense of history: Hillsborough County library system offers resources on Black history
Mariah Harrison reports
TAMPA, Fla. - With February being Black History Month, the Hillsborough County Public Libraries is inviting others to use their resources to discover books and movies about Black history, as well as creative works by history-makers.
Officials gave some recommendations. Non-fiction titles they suggest starting this month include the works of Ibram X. Kendi:
The Black Campus Movement,
Stamped from the Beginning,
How to be Antiracist, and
400 Souls: A Community History of African America. 1619-20. Kendi is an author, activist, and professor at Boston University.
Students fight for Black history courses, a more diverse curriculum in high schools
The students fighting for a more diverse lesson plan
Replay Video UP NEXT Many high school students are usually preoccupied with fitting in and keeping their heads above never-ending tests and due dates. But Machayla Randall, a high school senior in New Jersey, is more worried about making a difference in her school and beyond. “There s definitely a lack of education of African American history throughout our school system,” she said. “In our history courses, the most you learn about African American history is during the month of February, which is Black History Month, and it s limited to the civil rights movement and that s pretty much it, unfortunately.”
January 5, 2021
Named in Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020 for his work as a historian and leading antiracist scholar, Ibram Xolani Kendi will present to a Weber State University audience via Zoom, Jan. 13 from 6-7:30 p.m. Advanced registration is required at this link. You can submit questions at this link until Jan. 12.
Kendi will share his message that “being an antiracist requires persistent self-awareness, constant self-criticism and regular self-examination.”
Weber State University President Brad Mortensen will conduct a conversation-style interview with Kendi, whose speech is hosted by the Office of the President in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
because your speech actually grows conservatism. it spreads the ideology and it draws people in. they have no ideas. they are out of ideas. they are out of solutions. they are into demonization. you go to college campuses. you could be going to corporations and speaking, but you go to college campuses and i think the groups that are trying to make your life miserable or going after charlie kirk and turning point usa, go through the list of who is behind this effort to really tamp down on free speech. we know some of the big funded groups by george soros. but go through that briefly for us. there s certainly a lot of student groups that coordinate that are associated with the women s march or very much associated with this movement. a lot of the groups that were originally associated with black lives matter were very active in his campus movement. antifa was the far edge wing.
point usa, those groups, the list of who is behind this effort to really tamp down on free-speech, we know some of the big funded groups by george soros but go through that briefly. there are a lot of student groups that coordinate, groups associated with the women s march, a lot of groups associated with lack lives matter were active in this campus movement. antifa was the far edge movemen movement. the generalized attempt to shut down speeches by pressuring the administration, that s a lot of student groups that have been on campus since i was on college campuses. as a student myself. they continue to push for the idea that these campuses should be conservative free and complete safe spaces for people on the left not only because they think conservatives are going to convince people but they think conservatives are evil. they really think people like me are there to do them harm. when i show up and it turns out i am a relatively nonthreatening character and i ve never really