Featured October 11, 2022 Recruiting and retaining diverse talent from outside the Washington, D.C. area Back to Blog How we are honoring Black History Month Date February 22, 2023 | Updated on February 2, 2024 Authors Janica Kaneshiro Tags Diversity, Equity and Inclusion At the Partnership, we believe in continuous learning. It’s a principle that runs through our work and encourages us to continue to ask questions and seek answers so that we can build a better government and a stronger democracy. Fulfilling this mission means embracing diverse voices and perspectives within and outside of the Partnership. In that spirit, we asked our staff what they were reading, watching and more to honor Black History Month. Here’s what they shared: Books we are reading “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson “Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson “The Sum of Us” by Heather McGee “Black Food” and other cookbooks by Bryant Terry “The Cooking Gene” by Michael Twitty “Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital”by Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove “The Collected Poems of E. Ethelbert Miller” by E. Ethelbert Miller “Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer”by Kate Clifford Larson “Reconsidering Reparations” by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò Articles we are reading “Hiram Revels: The First African American Congressman” “Joseph Hayne Rainey: The First African American Representative” “Shirley Chisholm: The First African American Woman to be a Representative in Congress” “The Honorable Carol Moseley Braun: The first African American woman to be Elected Senator” “The Legacy of Arctic Explorer Matthew Henson” “31 Little-Known Black History Facts You May Not Have Learned in School” “1619 Project” “Black Fashion Is Fashion History: Meet Three Women Preserving Style Innovators’ Stories” “A look back at the blaxploitation era through 2018 eyes” “Equal Justice Initiative Daily Calendar” “28 Days of Black History Newsletter” What we are watching Padma Lakshmi’s “Taste the Nation”; Season 1, Episode 4: The Gullah Way “The 1619 Project” “Neptune Frost” “The Inheritance” “Killer of Sheep” “High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America” Where we are visiting The National Museum of African American History and Culture Martin Luther King Library Exhibit, “Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See” Leave a ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment.
