Art Form Challenge
Create a Girl/Friends chant with your group!
*See Chants*
This legendary singer, songwriter, and pianist used songs like "Mississippi Goddam" and "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black" to speak out against racial injustice during the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Nina Simone?
Which part of the curriculum requires you to look within yourself and your own experiences as a Black girl?
What is Girl/Me?
Who is Grace Wisher?
What are the names of the 7 A Long Walk Home staff members?
Who is:
Ms. Tillet
Porshe
Lauren
Savannah
Danielle
Jamilah
Brett
Pose with a Black girl play-related prop: jump rope, bubbles, chalk, hula hoops, Hair accessory
*see photographs*
For a 1942 photography project in Washington, D.C., Gordon Parks had government custodian Ella Watson pose with a broom and mop in front of an American flag, creating an iconic photograph sharing its title with this famous 1930 Grant Wood painting.
What is American Gothic?
Which part of the curriculum requires you to take a step back, look at your community, and the shared experiences of other Black girls
What is Girl/Culture ?
Spanning the mid-20th century, this historic mass relocation saw over 6 million African Americans move out of the rural American South to urban areas in the North and West, reshaporizing the cultural, musical, and political landscape of American cities.
What is The Great Migration?
In 2025, activists and community organizers gathered in Chicago to present the five finalist designs for a new public monument dedicated to this 22-year-old Black woman inside Douglass Park, the site where her life was taken.
Who is Rekia Boyd?
Dance Challenge: 30 sec dance to one of the Black girl anthems
*see dance*
This Chicago artist's mixed media practice combines layered materials with themes of identity, heritage, healing, and collective memory.
Who is Shaqui Reed?
Which part of the curriculum requires you to speak up, speak out, and stand in your own "power"
What is Girl/Power?
First recognized as a federal holiday in 2021, this annual June 19th celebration combines the words for the month it takes place in and the specific day the Union army enforced freedom in Texas.
What is Juneteenth?
Where did Lauren Dotson work before ALWH?
SkyArt
Writing Challenge: and perform a Short poem about what it means to be a Girl/Friend
*see writing*
Born in Haiti, this rising star of contemporary art explores Black diasporic life, memory, and migration through her multi-generational "living archive" project, Seremoni Disparisyon (Ritual [Dis]Appearance), which made its solo U.S. museum debut at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Who is Widline Cadet?
What were the themes for the last 2 summers of Girl/Friends?
What is Rest, Recess, and Resistance and A Nation in Her Image: Black Girlhood Reimagines America at 250?
On September 22, 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary warning; 100 days later, on January 1, 1863, he officially signed this definitive executive order into law.
What is the emancipation proclamation?
At the National Mall in 2023, A Long Walk Home and Monument Lab hosted a public "Play Day" featuring games and double dutch that was directly inspired by a photography series celebrating this specific, intersectional identity.
What is Black Girlhood?
Social Justice Challenge: Create a Protest Sign
Center Gender-Based Violence
Need a slogan
Free to use any art supplies
5 minutes
*see protest signs*
This 20th-century painter is best known for his 60-panel Migration Series, which chronicles the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North.
Who is Jacob Lawrence?
Name the field trips we have taken this year
*Im listening!*
First performed in 1900 and later adopted by the NAACP, this powerful song became a symbol of hope, resilience, and freedom for generations of Black Americans.
What is "Lift Every Voice and Sing"?
Written by activist and sociologist Joyce Ladner, the landmark 1971 book Tomorrow's Tomorrow: The Black Woman was the first text exclusively dedicated to studying the lives of Black girls, effectively founding this specific field of academic study.
What is Black Girlhood Studies?