We invite you to add stories or anecdotes about a departed family member, public figure, or literary character to our group Día de Muertos altar. What is a Día de Muertos Oferenda? Traditionally the ofrenda is presented in one’s home in order to commemorate the souls of loved ones in the family who have died. We want you to commemorate […]
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Aleuts are American Indians from Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
I like how he takes the phrase “flip the bird” for giving someone the middle finger and changes the “bird” into “eagle”, since the eagle is an important symbol for many Indian groups/tribes/nations. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
the previous paragraph says that he tried college, jobs, and family life. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
When you stay with family or friends, it’s not the same as being in your own place. There are rules you didn’t make but you have to follow them or you can’t stay there, and after a while most people don’t really expect you to stay for a long time Sometimes getting help is as hard as trying to do […]
It means that he didn’t just leave all of a sudden, or one day decided to go cheat on his wives/girlfriends, but stuck around long enough with his bad habits to disappoint them and break their hearts. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
A lot of Black people changed their names to African names they had chosen, since their enslaved ancestors almost definitely didn’t get to choose their names. However, Dee’s Mother knows all the names of her ancestors back through the Civil War, which is not something everyone can say. Dee’s name actually does have history behind it. Print this page. Author […]
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It is a very common greeting in Arabic-speaking countries, and among Muslims in any country. It became more common to hear in in the USA at this time because of the influence of the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X as an African American leader. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
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This was the early 70s, when many Black Americans were beginning to reconnect to the idea of Africa and their connection to it. Many could not know exactly where in Africa their ancestors had come from, so they adapted spiritual practices, like Islam and animism, learned phrases from African languages and wore African clothing and traditional hairstyles. Dee came home […]
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You’ll get an in-depth view of the voice, plot, characters, and other literary elements of a story by looking at it through different eyes. We invite you to… Retell a story through different eyes by changing WHO tells the story, WHAT parts of the story get retold, and HOW the story is told. Remix and retell a story in your […]
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The house was a simple country house, and she wanted more than that. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
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…and there were not a lot of Black people seen on television yet. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
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You spend more time outside in the country, so outside spaces are also kept orderly for being in. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
There is a typo here…this word is “serious”. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
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That’s how Zurara and people who agreed with him were able to use the Bible as a justification for slavery. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
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In this case, a “smoker” was the name for a pornographic show, either live or filmed. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
He seems to be using a 1-to-1 relationship between the words “Blackness” and “invisibility”, between “Black” and “invisible”, such that the title could read, “The Black Man”. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
For younger readers, reefer is an older term for weed/marijuana. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
I read this as the bad side of whiteness, the whiteness which has always been legitimized as “correct”. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
…but he can’t change the whole country, lie, cheat, riot, send people to violent because he’s mad he lost the election. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
That means “Forward always” in Spanish; the speaker referring to the next Representative as “the gentleman from….excuse me, the gentlewoman from…” reminds us that we have to be flexible, we have to be willing to adapt and change. There have been female Representatives for 105 years, but some people’s world view and language still haven’t caught up. Print this page. […]
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I wonder if he thought he had to tie up a car like you tie up a horse to a post… Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
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I hope there were no concussions inflicted in the name of Jesus… Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
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Nanny can say she wants Janie to have a better life than she did, but seems to be setting her up for the same misery. She knows she is keeping the cycle going, but doesn’t know how to stop it. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
Nowadays this is someone “telling you about yourself” Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
If you make sure people are fighting each other, they are distracted from fighting you. That’s what segregation in the USA was about, too. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
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I like that Starr’s parents made the choice to spend money on their children’s education rather than a fancy house they couldn’t afford. They are focused on the inside, not outside appearances. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
When we can’t be our natural selves, it feels uncomfortable. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
Once you are in the situation, it’s a lot harder to do what you always say you are going to do. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
In that story, Miss Moore was the only person they knew who’d gotten a college education. She returned to Harlem and made sure that she interacted with the young people so that they might think they could go to college, too. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
They have nothing against each other personally, but the bosses said they have to settle it this way. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
I know, unbelievable! But it’s true. Sorry for the spoiler, but she survived that. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
In this moment, the person she betrayed was Khalil, because when Hailey, her bossy white friend, wants to know if she knew Khalil, she lied and said she did not know him. She felt very bad about it as soon as she said that. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
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Meaning that they had multiple gods and goddesses – of the air, the water, sun, moon, fire, etc. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
Meaning that they had multiple gods and goddesses – of the air, the water, sun, moon, fire, etc. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
Kind of like Indian tribes here in the Americas. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
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You could see that it was him, but the people looking at the video already had constructed in their mind that this was a white person, so they couldn’t conceive that it could be Trevor. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
You could see that it was him, but the people looking at the video already had constructed in their mind that this was a white person, so they couldn’t conceive that it could be Trevor. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
So, what does this teach us? You might as well try! All they can say is no. And they might say yes. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
So, what does this teach us? You might as well try! All they can say is no. And they might say yes. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
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The father is older, and has a college education and a law degree. The children probably just started calling him his name because they heard others call him that, and he didn’t correct them because it doesn’t bother him. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
The father is older, and has a college education and a law degree. The children probably just started calling him his name because they heard others call him that, and he didn’t correct them because it doesn’t bother him. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
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Yes, the police must enforce the law, but they must also live by the same laws as everyone else. Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government. Members of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations (including thousands of their black slaves) were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to areas to the west of the […]
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“The native is to be treated as a child and denied franchise )the right to vote). We must adopt a system of despotism…in our relations with the barbarism of South Africa.” Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
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How else would I know that there are millions of people who think about an event I’m familiar with in such an unfamiliar way? Print this page. Author Ms. Hernandez-Speer
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I said in my Quicklist that I like riding the subway, which I mostly do. I’m a native New Yorker and have almost always depended on the subway. However, my current job isn’t on any subway line, so I drive to and from work. I wish I didn’t have to, because parking and traffic are both nightmares and add a […]
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