February 20, 2024

Blacks

NPR - Authors, librarians and bookshop employees recommend these books to help kids from toddler to teen years engage with Black history. 

NPR - What about dating while Black nearly a century ago? NPR's Code Switch goes into the archives of the Washington Afro-American's personal ads from 1937 to understand how Black folks were dating.

NPR - Each year, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History chooses a different theme for Black History Month. The 2024 theme is "African Americans and the Arts." It aims to celebrate the "richness of the past and the present" in African American arts while looking to the future, ASALH president Marvin Dulaney says. Read more about the history of Black History Month here.

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