And I'd break into full-throated renditions while playing skelly on the blacktop and shooting hoops on the playground. I'd belt out a verse walking to school or waiting to catch the bus to church. I'd sing them when the shows came on and when they went off. Hasan Kwame Jeffries: And I knew the lyrics to every one of these songs. Hasan Kwame Jeffries: There was the toe tapping, uplifting theme song to The Jeffersons, the soul stirring intro to Good Times, and a little bit later came the theme song to A Different World-the Aretha Franklin version, of course. But I defy anyone to say it wasn’t the Golden Age of the TV theme song, especially for shows that Black people watched. Hasan Kwame Jeffries: Now I seriously doubt that many TV critics would consider that moment in time the Golden Age of the small screen. And the streets of Brooklyn in the late ‘70s and ‘80s were no place for a little Black kid to be hanging out after school-and certainly no place for him to be hanging out after the streetlights flickered on. My parents let me because it kept me out of the streets. Hasan Kwame Jeffries: I grew up watching TV, a lot of TV. Learning for Justice: Student Text, New Orleans’ Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s Address on the Removal of Four Confederate Statues (grades 9-12).Learning for Justice: Student Text, A Personal Mission: Sammy Younge Jr. (grades 6-8, 9-12).Learning for Justice: Article, Charlottesville’s Zyahna Bryant Shall Lead.

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