The Kaepernick Effect

The Kaepernick Effect
Taking a Knee, Changing the World
by Dave Zirin

Our read for the weeks ahead. The Kaepernick Effect, Taking a Knee, Changing the World.

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To learn more about the book here are some interviews and discussions I’ve been tuned in to…

Hard Knock Radio Conversation with Davey D

What is The Kaepernick Effect? A Conversation with Eddie Glaude

Other resources connected to this text:

Serve Your City

Will update as we come across other resources! Shout out to the Edge of Sports and everyone connected to the stories featured in this text. Alright, we’re reading…

What Does it Mean to Be Present?

What Does It Mean to Be Present?

by Rana Diorio Illustrated by Eliza Wheeler

"This is the perfect book to start the New Year. It's the absolute cure for all of us (children and adults) who are overwhelmed with anxiety. The message of living in the moment gets lost with everything that is thrown at kids in school etc. Often times we ask kids to set goals when we come back from winter break as part of a New Year's activity. How about a simple goal like - Being Present. I'd love to explore this more with students. It's up to us to model this way of being. Lets get started!" SOURCE

Visit Roxanne's blog Books that Heal Kids:

booksthathealkids.blogspot.com

Our latest featured link is to elementary school counselor Roxanne's blog at booksthathealkids.blogspot.com. The blog is updated with great and purposeful book recommendations for educators and children.  Its where I found out about the title below What Does it Mean to Be Present by Rana Diorio, illustrated by Eliza Wheeler. I've included a quote from Roxanne's thoughts about the book that she shared on her blog. Check it out and also follow her at other social media sites linked from her blog such as Facebook & Twitter.

Home Trained 'Before Kennedy'

Home Trained.org

I first heard about Laban Carrick Hill after reading When the Beat Was Born, DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop.  You can learn more about this children's book from an interview I did with Laban and the illustrator Theodore Taylor III at Hip Hop Stacks click here.  

Home Trained.org is Laban's blog.  Below is a description about the blog.  It's a great storytelling destination by an incredible storyteller.  I call it a blog memoir, a perfect space to document story and for writers a space to exercise writing while giving people a chance to engage with memories and stories.  

I started reading the blog from the beginning, a post titled 'Family Omerta'.  My most recent read was the post titled 'Before Kennedy', to read click here.  It explores early memories through Laban's experience.  It's also the first time I've ever heard of the 'hippocampus' part of our brains.

As the semester wraps up, I thought about using the 'Me & My Baby Brothers' blog to share more family, friend, and community stories.  Every day there's a new story.  Something that pulls us back in time, or something that makes us think far into the future.  What a great way to document than through a free web property like Google blog.

Here's the description of Home Trained by Laban Carrick Hill.  We've added the Home Trained link to our Reading Bros links list to the right.  In addition, please visit Laban Carrick Hill at labanhill.com, we've added this link to the Writers category to the right.

"Laban Carrick Hill is exploring growing up in a family that was on the wrong side of the Civil Rights Movement and swung from prosperity to poverty. He is currently a high school teacher in Vermont. He is a co-director and co-founder of the Writers Project of Ghana, a nonprofit based in the Ghana and the US. Hill is the author of more than 40 books, including When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop (Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award); Dave the Potter: Artist, Slave, Poet (Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award), America Dreaming: How Youth Changed America (2007 Parenting Publications Gold Award), Casa Azul (NYPL Best Book for the Teen Age 2007), and Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance (National Book Award Finalist)."