A Song : Tom’s Diner – Suzanne Vega

Sins of the Father : a 2002 Film Based on a True Story

Click on the poster to watch the video : Plot : A man must decide if his greater loyalty is to his family or to  justice in this made-for-TV movie based on a true story. In 1963, several members of a Southern Ku Klux Klan chapter bombed an African-American church in Birmingham, AL. Four young […]

Birmingham Sunday – A Song by Joan Baez (1964)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ0y-vO9QLE&feature=player_embedded Come round by my side and I’ll sing you a song. I’ll sing it so softly, it’ll do no one wrong. On Birmingham Sunday the blood ran like wine, And the choirs kept singing of Freedom. That cold autumn morning no eyes saw the sun, And Addie Mae Collins, her number was one. In […]

Ballad of Birmingham

Ballad of Birmingham (1965) Dudley Randall (1914-2000) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kk7ghmoQ6s (On the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963) The poem was set to music by Jerry Moore in 1967. “Mother dear, may I go downtown Instead of out to play, And march the streets of Birmingham In a Freedom March today?” “But, mother, I won’t […]

Do the Test !

Learn more about New York City

Watch the video about New York City and do the exercices

The American Melting Pot

Listening to the news from the BBC

You can listen to the news and read the scripts !