Black history is more than just a month.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n Learning about our history, origin and culture is a year round activity. That\u2019s why Trish Lewis created the Heritage Box<\/a>. Trish\u2013who was born and raised in Zimbabwe\u2013and her American husband wanted to teach their children about their legacy\u2013so they created a subscription box as a \u201ctool for families to keep the conversation going year round.\u201d<\/p>\n Designed to build self pride in children and enhance their understanding of their heritage, Heritage Box<\/a>\u2019s contents are carefully selected by a group of educators, teachers, and a special focus group of children. Each month, Heritage Box brings more history to discover, more Black heroes to learn about, and more African geography to explore right into your home.<\/p>\n Little ones can learn more about their roots and culture through educational cartoons<\/a>, like Bino and Fino, Meltrek, and Tell Me Who I Am. With brother and sister Bino and Fino<\/a>, they can explore the history of Nigeria. In Meltrek<\/a>, they\u2019ll learn about the contributions of ancient Africa, and Tell Me Who I am <\/a>will give in depth information on historical black figures as they travel through time with Nia, a girl from 14th century Timbuktu.<\/p>\n Adults can find out about the radical Black Panther Party with \u201cThe Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.\u201d This documentary sheds light on the Panther\u2019s history, its enigmatic leaders, and the purpose behind the movement. Panther co-founder Bobby Seale said, \u201cThere is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked the Black Panther Party, and why.\u201d Young, revolutionary, and determined to make a change, the Black Panthers made history.<\/p>\n You can even learn about your own family\u2019s history. Socamom<\/a> creator Eva Greene Wilson encourages other moms to reach out to their parents and \u201cask them if they can talk to them and record their version of events in their lives. In your spare time, you can compare and contrast their recollections with the memories of others, create a timeline, and match photos and newspaper clippings to those memories.\u201d Working with AT &T, Eva chronicled her research of her father\u2019s journey from Trinidad to Washington DC\u2019s <\/a>Howard University in a special video.<\/p>\n With her husband and children, Eva was able to explore her family\u2019s history. She says involving the kids can be fun for them too. \u201cIt can be time consuming, and motherhood is a busy job, I would get the children involved in any library research, have them help match up names, nicknames, and dates, and also let them engage in age appropriate discussions about historical and family events that were happening at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n In February 2016, activist and advocate Danielle Slaughter <\/a>went to Barnes & Noble to purchase books from their Black History Month displays, \u201conly to find small end caps that were easy to miss.\u201d Danielle took matters into her own hands, contacting Barnes & Noble, and then sharing books about Black history and the Black experience on Facebook\u2013turning her passion into Black History is American History<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"subscription-box-for-kids\"](\"http:\/\/mymommyvents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/HeritageBox.jpg\")
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