Urban Music, Jun 8, 2023
Music Video made and produced by the students and teachers of Dilworth School in Pittsburgh PA.
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Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post showcases several YouTube videos of African American children's Black History Month performances. In addition to their information and creativity, these videos document various hair styles that are worn by the students during those time periods.
This pancocojams post also includes brief information about Black History Month in the United States.
The content of this post is presented for historical, cultural, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all those who are featured in these videos and thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post.
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This post is closely related to a five part pancocojams series entitled "Some Hair Styles Worn By Black Girls In Africa And In The African Diaspora".
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/02/videos-examples-of-black-high-school.html for Part I of that series. The links to the other posts in that series are given in each of those posts.
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INFORMATION ABOUT BLACK HISTORY MONTH IN THE UNITED STATES
From
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/black-history-month
"Black History Month, by Kay Boatner," [no publishing date given,
retrieved Feb.28, 2024)
"Every February, people in the United States celebrate the achievements and history of African Americans as part of Black History Month.
HOW IT STARTED
In 1915, in response to the lack of information on the
accomplishments of Black people available to the public, historian Carter G.
Woodson co-founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. In
1926, the group declared the second week of February as “Negro History Week” to
recognize the contributions of African Americans to U.S. history. Few people
studied Black history and it wasn't included in textbooks prior to the creation
of Negro History Week.
This week was chosen because it includes the birthdays of both Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist (someone who wanted to end the practice of enslaving people), and former U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. President Lincoln led the United States during the Civil War, which was primarily fought over the enslavement of Black people in the country. Many schools and leaders began recognizing the week after its creation.
The week-long event officially became Black History Month in 1976 when U.S. president Gerald Ford extended the recognition to “honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.” Black History Month has been celebrated in the United States every February since.
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH TODAY
Since the first Negro History Week in 1926, other countries have joined the United States in celebrating Black people and their contribution to history and culture, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Today Black History Month continues the discussion of Black people and their contributions through activities such as museum exhibits and film screenings, and by encouraging the study of achievements by African Americans year-round."...
PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
With regard to Showcase Video #1 that is given at the top of
this post, the publisher's name Urban Music" refers to a Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania based community organization that teamed with Dilworth School on
this 2023 Black History month project. The students who are rapping in this
video created their own raps.
This Dilworth School performance included an adult
instructor and some students performing American Sign language (ASL). Dilworth
had a sign language club and now offers sign language instructions for students
from kindergarten through fifth grade as an in-school option during Dilworth's
periodic creative learning enrichment periods. None of the Dilworth instructors
or students in that school are deaf or have any hearing loss. That club and the
sign language enrichment period provide/d opportunities for Dilworth students
to be introduced to and to learn another language and to increase their
awareness of and knowledge about deaf cultures.
The song that is sung in this video is a remake of Lauryn Hill's 1998 song "Doo Wop" (That Thing)",
Full Disclosure: My daughter is shown in this video along with my granddaughter. My daughter, Mrs. Tazi Hughes, teaches at Dilworth Traditional Academy, a Pittsburgh Public Elementary School. She and another teacher were the founders of that American Sign Language (ASL) club and they are the instructors of Dilworth's ASL creative learning enrichment option. The first appearance of my daughter is around 1:11 in this video. (She's wearing the jacket with the red trim.)
My granddaughter, Jaiya Hughes, was a fourth grade student at Dilworth when this video was filmed. The first appearance of my granddaughter is around 1:26 in this video. (She's wearing a t-shirt with black and gold sign language insignia).
Principal Qualisha Zyhier's first appearance in this video is around .52.
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ADDITIONAL SHOWCASE VIDEOS
These videos are shown in chronological order based on their publishing date on YouTube.
SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - Kindergarten Black History Performance
Mansion Day School, Mar 11, 2013
Recorded on March 1, 2013 using a Flip Video camera.
This video doesn't provide any information about the city/state where this school is located.
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SHOWCASE VIDEO #3 - Black History Month Kindergarten Celebration
Harlem Village Academies, Jan 26, 2018
This video doesn't provide any information about the city/state where this school is located.
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SHOWCASE VIDEO #4 - Richmond Heights Elementary School African American History
Program 2020
Richmond Heights Schools District MEDIA, Mar 4, 2020
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This video didn't give any information about where this school is located . However, another video on that channel gave the name of that school district's former Superintendent and from their I deduced that Richmond Heights School is located in Richmond Heights, Ohio.
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SHOWCASE VIDEO #5 -We Shall Overcome" - 4th Grade Video Performance
Ebenezer Avenue Music, Feb 24, 2022
"We Shall Overcome"
This video was created for educational use only and not for profit.
This video doesn't provide any information about the city/state where this school is located.
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"We Shall Overcome" is a song that is associated with the 1960s United States civil rights movement. That civil rights protest song derived from the African American Gospel song "I'll Overcome" that was written in 1901 by Charles Albert Tindley.
Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Shall_Overcome for more information about the song "We Shall Overcome".
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