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Influential Black Americans nominated these these trailblazers.
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Black History Month has become a time-honored tradition since it was first conceptualized as Negro History Week in 1925 by Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), and first celebrated in 1926. In 1976, honoring the heritage of Black Americans became a month-long celebration, officially recognized in the United States by President Gerald R. Ford.
Now more than ever, February is a time to remember the people who have enriched the community with knowledge, pride and respect. We recognize the contributions, struggles and history of African Americans, and reflect on the idea that Black History is at the heart of American history.Welcome to the first
So you think you’re a Mainer. Have you read these books?
With time on your hands, now is a good time to catch up on some of the must-read books by Maine authors.
Courtesy of the Beautiful Blackbird Children’s Book Festival
One thing the pandemic has done is eliminate your excuse for not reading more.
Maine authors have created some of the classic books of all time, along with best-sellers and Pulitzer Prize-winners. Their stories about Maine and their Maine viewpoints are rich and varied. Reading as many as you can only enriches your awareness of the state, your sense of being a Mainer.
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Display of books at Indigo Arts Alliance’s Beautiful Blackbird Children’s Book Festival. (Photo by Sijie Yuan/MaineCF)
Grants of up to $10,000 from Maine Community Foundation’s Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Fund are available to nonprofit programs or organizations that are led by, and serve, people of Native American, Latino, African, Arab, and Asian descent.
Grants focus on three areas: addressing health disparities, supporting youth, and improving economic opportunities.
The deadline for applications is February 15, 2021. The application, details of the grant program, and a list of recent grants are available at www.mainecf.org.
Amazing Audiobooks (#AA2021) Nominees Round Up, December 16 Edition
Click here to see all of the current Amazing Audiobooks nominees along with more information about the list and past years’ selections.
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee; narrated by: Scott Keiji Takeda, Dan Woren, Ryan Potter, Ali Fumiko, Sophie Oda, Andrew Kishino, Christopher Naoki Lee, Grace Rolek, Erika Aishii, Brittany Ishibashi, Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa, and Terry Kitagawa
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780358343561
Fourteen Japanese American teens are cruelly taken from their San Francisco homes to internment camps purportedly to protect the U.S. west coast from Japanese espionage or sabotage during World War II. The Nissei’s stories start the same, but have many different outcomes as they make their choices and too many choices are made for them.