You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 3, Episode 12, How to Celebrate Black History Month.

Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home. First-name basis is designed

to empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in your family and a changemaker in

your community. Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create

the world we want, a world that reflects our values of inclusion, compassion, and

courage. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited to be on this journey with you.

Hello, First Name Basis, fam. I am so glad you are here. It's February 1st, which means that it is

officially Black History Month and drum roll please, confetti cannon please, Skywriter please,

bite-sized black history is finally available.

I cannot wait for you to use this resource in your home or in your classroom.

Let me tell you about it.

So bite-sized black history is your key to a meaningful Black History Month celebration in your home or in your

classroom. Oh my goodness, you are going to love this product. It is 12 bite-sized podcast episodes.

They are all eight minutes or less, just perfect for your little ones,

and they all highlight a different person from Black History. But the thing is, I chose people who are

lesser known. So you're not going to hear about your Rosa Parks or your Martin Luther King Jr.'s.

Obviously, those people are so important, but I also think

that we need to dig deep and uncover these amazing figures, these amazing heroes from Black

History that we don't know about. It starts with the bite-sized podcast episodes, but it does not

end there. So there's a booklet that goes

with the program. And the booklet has a coloring page. Each person who is highlighted in a podcast

episode has their very own coloring page. And then there are reflection questions that go along

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