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Words Like Freedom/Sturdy Black Bridges
Performance of African-American poetry and music

Grade Levels:: 9-adult
Length:: 60 minutes
Taping Rights:: Unlimited until 2010
MARC Record:: Downloadable
Teaching Materials:: See Below

Words Like Freedom/Sturdy Black Bridges is a “poetic concert” featuring African-American writing and music. Words Like Freedom focuses on the significant role of African-American women in the struggle for racial justice and opens with Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” speech. Sturdy Black Bridges explores the trials and triumphs of black womanhood through the words of African-American women writers. Other writers whose work is featured in the program include Nikki Giovanni, Yusef Iman, Carolyn Rogers, and Priscilla Cooper.

This moving performance is a rich classroom resource that can be used to introduce students to often overlooked literary works by African Americans. A 1997 KET production.

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: Dhana Bradley-Morton and Priscilla Hancock Cooper, co-founders of the Theatre Workshop of Louisville, present a "poetic concert" featuring the words of African-American writers. Words Like Freedom draws on writings associated with the civil rights movement, while Sturdy Black Bridges explores the role of women in black culture. Featured authors and poets include Sojourner Truth, Langston Hughes, Nikki Giovanni, and Yusef Iman. A 1997 KET production. 57 minutes; Wednesday, February 6 at 6:30 pm on KETED; Monday, February 18 at 10:00 am on KETED

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Kentucky Academic Expectations

This program relates to the following Kentucky Academic Expectations.

1.14	Music
2.23	Art Form
2.25	Cultural Heritage

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