Black History Month

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Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Call to Carry the Gospel of Freedom

Litany
This three-page litany includes quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr. and calls on each of us to be nonviolent agents of change in today’s world. Commemorate Black History Month in your classroom,...
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Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures tells the remarkable story of three African American women who played a significant role in the NASA launch of John Glenn, the first person to orbit the earth. This resource includes a...
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Loving

Film Discussion Guide
Loving (2016) tells the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving, whose interracial marriage led to the landmark Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia. Commemorate Black History Month in your...
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13th

Film Discussion Guide
Ava DuVernay’s powerful documentary 13th argues that, although slavery was ostensibly abolished in 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment legally embedded and allowed a pernicious form of enslavement in...
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Prayer: Saint Martin de Porres

Prayer
Saint Martin de Porres is the patron saint of mixed-race peoples and healthcare workers, whose feast day falls on November 3. This prayer celebrates his devotion and calls us to greater tolerance and...
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Prayer for an End to Racism

Prayer
Fr. John Bucki, S.J., offers this simple and powerful prayer to acknowledge racism and uproot it from ourselves, our society, and our world. Commemorate Black History Month in your classroom,...
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Black Poetry Day, October 17

Litany
This short litany includes a small sample of black poets, known and often unknown, who have used their words to shed light on the institutional sins of racism and inequality. Commemorate Black...
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Selma Movie Discussion

Film Discussion Guide
Selma retells the story of one of the seminal moments in the history of the Civil Rights movement. In telling the story, the filmmakers used official FBI documents to illustrate that Dr. King and...
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"Endgame: AIDS in Black America"

Every ten minutes, someone in the U.S. contracts HIV, and nearly half of the one million people in the United States infected with HIV are African American men, women, and children. Endgame: AIDS in...
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Prayer Service for Black History Month

Prayer Service
This four-page prayer service for Black History Month includes prayers, scriptural readings, and reflections on the principles of Catholic Social Teaching from leaders in the African American...
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Black History Month PowerPoint

Black History Month: From Freedom to Fulfillment This PowerPoint moves through American history with images and words of African Americans' long struggle for justice and equality. The fight for...
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Black Farmers in the United States

This unit looks at the structural racism that Black farmers in the United States have faced for over a century. Included are prayers, reflections from Catholic Social Teaching, discussion questions,...
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