Birthday Cake and Snapshots of Black Joy

Smithsonian Learning Lab
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Smithsonian Learning Lab
Resource Type
Classroom Material
Keywords
birthdays, African American, Black, portraits, portrait, candid, photograph, photography, cake, birthday cake, aging, elderly, family, children, child, baby, elder, parents Social Studies Arts
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Birthday Cake and Snapshots of Black Joy

"BLACK FOLK DON'T HAVE BIRTHDAYS / We have birthday weekends, / birthday weeks, / birthday months, / A milestone year like 30 or 50 / can result in a yearlong jubilee / of saying yes to all pleasures. / As the descendants of the once enslaved, / who had no record of when they were born / and no means by which to celebrate, / we are blessed with the inheritance of extra days. / They whisper, / celebrate child. / Take all the time / you need." - "Black Folk Don't Have Birthdays" by Steven Willis
Author
Laken Brooks
Publisher
Smithsonian Learning Lab

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