During this season of Lent, we're committed to taking action against racism.
Browse action items by age or topic and select one or two that you can complete during Lent.
Participate in National Gallery of Art family art activities events. Or collaborate with local high minority population elementary schools to support field trips to the NGA.
Watch Hair Love, the Oscar-winning animated short film for children on YouTube. 6 minutes
Read How to Fight Racism: Young Reader's Edition (ages 8-12), by Jemar Tisby, and discuss. Free copies available during Lent at Mount Olivet.
Read kids’ books celebrating black hair.
Read to your children about everyone's right to vote: Lillian's right to vote : a celebration of the Voting Rights...
With your child, read a book with a character who doesn’t look like you.
With your child, read a book with a character who learns differently than you.
With your child, read a book with a character who doesn’t live like you.
With your child, read a book with a character who has a different religion from you.
With your child, read a book with a character who identifies differently than you.
With your child, read a book with a character who moves differently from you.
With your child, read a book about social justice issues.
With your child, read a book about a cuisine or food new to you.
With your child, read a book with a character who is new to this county.
With your child, read a book about a trailblazer new to you.
With your child, read a book about a holiday or a celebration new to you.
With your child, read a book about an historical event new to you.
Learn about "mirror and window" books.
Purchase and read Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson” winner of the 2023 John Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Author Award. Arlington, Virginia author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children’s escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom.
Collaborate with One Journey Festival and expose your children to dance from other countries. Engage with refugee children in these events.
Listen to this children’s book about the song Lift Every Voice and Sing
Read this fun story WAMU story about Hall’s Hill, an historically Black neighborhood near Mount Olivet and their annual Turkey Bowl football game.
Learn about other cultures through participating in the annual March Blossom Kite Festival (formerly the Smithsonian Kite Festival).
Share these black history themed videos from Arlington County’s Rec @ Home with your kids.
Visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial.