Langston Hughes - February 1

Thursday, February 1, 2024

Today is Change Your Password Day, Dark Chocolate Day, G.I. Joe Day, Black Women in Arts Day, Girls & Women in Sports Day, National Signing Day, Robinson Crusoe Day, Serpent Day, World Hijab Day, and  World Read Aloud Day

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Langston Hughes
Watch

Black History Month Resources of the Day: Artist Faith Ringgold
Reading Rainbow - Tar Beach
Faith Ringgold Reads Tar Beach
Faith Ringgold's Life's Work
Faith Ringgold on the Process of Creating the "Tar Beach" Story Quilt
Faith Ringgold on Writing Tar Beach
Faith Ringgold - Guggenheim Museum
Faith Ringgold and Story Quilts Lesson Plan
Kimball Art Center: Faith Ringgold Story Quilts Lesson Plan

ON THIS DATE

• 1861 - Texas secedes from the United States.
• 1862 - "The Battle Hymn of the Republic,"  by Julia Ward Howe was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
• 1942 - Voice of America begins broadcasting.
• 1960 - Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
• 1964 - The Beatles have their first number-one hit in the United States with "I Want to Hold Your Hand."
• 1982 - "Late Night with David Letterman" premiered on NBC.
• 2003 - The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
• 2004 - Singer Janet Jackson had a "wardrobe malfunction" during the Super Bowl halftime show. By the way, the Patriots won.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1895 - Director John Ford
• 1901 - Actor Clark Gable
• 1902 - Poet and novelist Langston Hughes
• 1931 - Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin
• 1937 - Singer-songwriter Don Everly
• 1942 - Welsh actor Terry Jones
• 1948 - Singer-songwriter Rick James
• 1994 - Singer-songwriter Harry Styles

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Everly Brothers - All I Have to Do Is Dream - LISTEN
• The Beatles  - I Want to Hold Your Hand - LISTEN
  
• Rick James - Super Freak - LISTEN

THEME:  LANGSTON HUGHES

• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Know Ohio - Langston Hughes (3:15) - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - EDSITEment -The Poet's Voice: Langston Hughes and You Lesson Plan - READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  A Walk Through Harlem - "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (0:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  A Walk Through Harlem - Symbolism in "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (0:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Poetry in America - Harlem by Langston Hughes (25:26) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - American Experience - Langston Hughes on Trial (4:39) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Antiques Roadshow - Appraisal: Langston Hughes Signed First Edition Books (3:53) -  VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - ReadWriteThink - Langston Hughes Activities - READ and DO
• Grades 8-12 - EDSITEment - The Works of Langston Hughes Teacher's Guide -DO
• Grades 9-12 - ReadWriteThink - Discovering a Passion for Poetry With Langston Hughes Lesson Plan - READ and DO
• Grades 10-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Passages: Unit 10 - Rhythms in Poetry (28:23) - VIEW

WATCH

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TREASURES WITH BETTANY HUGHES - Treasures of Greece
Thursday, 2/1 from 9-10 pm NHPBS
Greece is the birthplace of an astonishing culture that changed the way the world thinks. Bettany starts her journey in Athens, the crowning achievement of ancient Greek civilization and a symbol of intellect and democracy the world over. TREASURES WITH BETTANY HUGHES Streaming Video

TREASURES WITH BETTANY HUGHES - Treasures of Malta
Thursday, 2/1 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
Bettany discovers Malta as a cultural hub laden with some of the world's most precious treasures, where civilizations from East, West, North, and South have met and combined. TREASURES WITH BETTANY HUGHES Streaming Video

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SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Jamestown's Dark Winter
Thursday, 2/1 from 3-4 pm NH EXPLORE
Follow forensic anthropologists as they excavate the early American colony and uncover dark secrets. What do the newly discovered bones of a 14-year-old English girl reveal about what really happened during the winter of 1609? SECRETS OF THE DEAD Streaming Video

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AMERICN EXPERIENCE - Nazi Town USA
Thursday, 2/1 from 11 am -12 pm NH WORLD
Nazi Town, USA tells the story of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group that in the 1930s had scores of chapters across the country, representing what many believe was a real threat of fascist subversion in the United States. They held joint rallies with the KKK and ran summer camps for children centered around Nazi ideology and imagery, melding patriotic values with virulent anti-Semitism. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Going Back to T-Town
Thursday, 2/1 from 4-5 pm NH WORLD
Revisit Greenwood, a Black community in Tulsa. Torn apart in 1921 by a racially- motivated massacre, the neighborhood rose again but could not survive integration and urban renewal. A bittersweet portrait of small-town life told by those who lived it. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video

EYES ON THE PRIZE - Awakenings (1954-1956)
Thursday, 2/1 from 8-9 pm NH WORLD
Individual acts of courage inspire black Southerners to fight for their rights: Mose Wright testifies against the white men who murdered young Emmett Till and Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. EYES ON THE PRIZE Streaming Video

EYES ON THE PRIZE - Fightin Back (1957-1962)
Thursday, 2/1 from 9-10 pm NH WORLD
States' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High School and in James Meredith's 1962 challenge to segregation at the University of Mississippi. EYES ON THE PRIZE Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339