literacy
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Literacy’s Role in African American Education
Guest Blog Post. I’m on Rachel’s Blog today. Come on over! Continue reading
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“We Slipped and Learned to Read”
It is common knowledge that slaves were lawfully restricted from learning to read and write. One less commonly stated fact however, was that slaves were not completely ignorant. They could not read and write English but this did not mean they could not read and write period. As strangers in a foreign land, many African… Continue reading
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Reading – The Write Way
My first love was Mildred D. Taylor. It was the sixth grade, and I was Smitten for Stacey, Cassie, and the whole Logan gang in the classic “Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry”. I realized then my love for African American literature, history and culture. The sharecropping family had snagged at the core of my… Continue reading
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