WHY WE DO THIS EVENT EACH YEAR: Now, more than ever, diversity and equity is important...and it matters. We have to stay aware and help create change. Diversity is what drives us to be unique in our own school and in our world. After hosting this event the last two years, we have been working even harder to make sure that our diverse student population is represented on our shelves (both physically and digitally) in the library. we celebrate our Read-In as well as the culmination of Black History Month, and we are proud to have so many of our students and staff members who have volunteered to be a part of this event each year. Be brave and be part of the change.
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2021's Read-In looked a little different due to the pandemic, but that didn't stop us from hosting our annual event! In fact, it made us want to do it even more to have something positive to look forward to. For the full recording, please click the link and enjoy!
ARTWORK
Art piece by former North teacher, Keilan Bonner.
2025: BSA Presents - "The Rhythm of Our Roots: A Journey Through Black Storytelling"
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson
A Summary on Claudette Colvin
"Bag Lady" by Erykah Badu
"Say Yes" by Michelle Williams ft. Beyonce and Kelly Rowland
"Unsilenced" an original poem by student Darielle Dallas
"Hey Black Child" by Countee Cullen
"What's Black Enough?" an original poem by student Ethan Davis
"Black Gold, Bold Soul" an original rap by student Alex Thompson
"And Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou
We Need to Talk About Yasuke: Fact, Fiction, and History with the "African Samurai"
Glenbard North Show Stompers
2024: "A Time to Remember"
"The People's Historian" by Kenneth Carroll
"The Negro Mother" by Langston Hughes
"Rise to You" by Sophia Thakur
The Life and Career of Roberto Clemente
"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou
"The Three Evils of Society" by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Life and Career of Ernie Davis
Sula by Toni Morrison
2023: "Then and Now"
"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou
A Black Man Ponders the Meaning of WWII: Anonymous oral history from The Good War by Studs Turkel
"Keep Ya Head Up" by Tupac Shakur
Passages from Holler if You Hear Me: Tupac Shakur by Michael Eric Dyson
"Hair" by Elizabeth Acevedo (in English and Spanish)
Toni Morrison's 2004 Commencement Address to Wellesley College
"Ode to the Only Black Kid in Class" by Clint Smith
"How to Explain White Supremacy to a White Supremacist" by Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre
"Killing Me Softly" by Lauren Hill
The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
"To Be Black in America" by Devin Ortiz
Sidney Poitier's 2000 Commencement Address to University of Southern California
"Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou
2021: "For There is Always Light"
"The Hill We Climb" by Amanda Gorman
"I Have a Dream" Speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's Not Regular by Jahmal Cole
Becoming Black by Mwende Katwiwa
"Coal" by Audre Lorde
"Eternal Light" An Original Art Piece by student Jeffrey Dorsey
Thurgood Marshall: An American Hero - An Informative Speech
How Not to Get Shot by D.L. Hughley
"Eve Remembering" by Toni Morrison
The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant
"Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes
Excerpts from "Gates to Freedom" by Angela Davis
"We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
2020: "Celebrating a Culture"
Forward to Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phyllis Wheatly
"Equality" by Maya Angelou
The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Adichie
"The Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou
"Illumination" an Original Art Piece by Keilan Bonner
"All About Love: New Visions" by Bell Hooks
The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant
We Have Names: A Program by Tracy K. Smith, Leodrus McCray and Aja Monet
"Ain't I a Woman" by Sojourner Truth
A Talk to Teachers by James Baldwin
"Sing, Unburied, Sing" by Jesmyn Ward
"What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black?" by Margaret Burroughs
"I Have a Dream" Speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2019: "The First Event"
Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
Letters to a Young Brother by Hill Harper
#SayHerName by Aja Monet
"On the Pulse of Morning" by Maya Angelou
A Brief Life by Ariana Brown
"And Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou
"Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou
"Rise Up" by Andra Day
"And2morrow" by Tupac Shakur
"Heartbeats" by Melvin Dixon