A WORLD TO LEARN FROM.Byline: - Mike Chmielecki If you want your children to honor Black History Month by learning, but can't get them to crack open a textbook, get them hooked on reading about the lives and doings of prominent, pioneering African-American athletes. ``The Greatest: Muhammad Ali'' by Walter Dean Myers tells the story of the man born Cassius Clay Noun 1. Cassius Clay - United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942) Ali, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Muhammad Ali , who dared to be boastful and arrogant in an age when African-Americans were told to be quiet and respectful. He played the media the same way he fought in the ring, using brashness and technique to rage against America's racism. Legendary point guard Earvin ``Magic'' Johnson and his liquid technique are celebrated in ``take it to the hoop, Magic johnson'' by Quincy Troupe Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr., born July 22, 1939, in St Louis , Missouri, is a poet, editor (recently the Styx River Magazine), journalist, and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, California. , illustrated by Shane W. Evans. The book reads like a long-form street poem (``like the sho-nuff shaman shaman (shä`mən, shā`–, shă`–), religious practitioner in various, generally small-scale societies who is believed to be able to diagnose, cure, and sometimes cause illness because of a special relationship with, or you am, `magic,' '') with catchy, jazzy jazz·y adj. jazz·i·er, jazz·i·est 1. Resembling jazz in form or nature; rhythmical. 2. Slang Showy; flashy: a jazzy car. illustrations of Magic at the top of his game. And when your kids are ready to learn more, head over to the library and have fun with other African-Americans in history, like Louis Armstrong, Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X Malcolm X, 1925–65, militant black leader in the United States, also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, b. Malcolm Little in Omaha, Neb. He was introduced to the Black Muslims while serving a prison term and became a Muslim minister upon his release in 1952. and Martin Luther King Jr. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) no caption (``The Greatest: Muhammad Ali'') (2) no caption (``take it to the hoop, Magic johnson'') |
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