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DescriptionAnansi, the trickster learns that it is not nice playing tricks on your friends.
DescriptionBlack History/Child
Brer Fox in one of his many adventures to have Brer Rabbit for dinner fails again.
DescriptionBlack History/Folktale/All Ages
Brer Rabbit is able to assist his one friend, Brer Coon, in catching the frogs for his dinner.
DescriptionBlack History/Child Time 6:04
This book was read for a Jumpstart Read for the Record in 2020. A story of what it feels like when a dear friend moves away.
DescriptionFairy Tale/Child
A classic Fairy Tale of how team work makes the dream work, when family & community come together to find a working solution!
DescriptionBlack History/Women's History/Slave/3rd & up 13:00 minutes
Fictitious story of Celia Mable, a slave buried in a cemetery in Mableton, GA alongside her master.
Written by Josie Bailey in the dialect.
DescriptionBlack History/Women's History/Post slavery/3rd grade & up/Time 14:00
Fictitious story written by Josie Bailey. Rosa Lee is Celia Mable (a slave), granddaughter who speaks of the customs of her day!
DescriptionBlack History/Historical/Adult/Child
A true story of a slave, who mailed himself to freedom and later created a performance and wrote a book about his escape.
DescriptionBlack History/African Folktale/Adult/3rd grade & up
A folktale that sheds light on how Tiger, in his quest for wisdom, gets his stripes, instead!
DescriptionBlack History/Historical/Adult/Child
The story of a Black Cowboy, who was a horse whisperer. He got his freedom in 1865 and owned 1200 acres of land.
DescriptionBlack History/Historical/All Ages/12 min
A portrayal of Martin's life from boyhood, which includes a portion of his, "I Have A Dream Speech!"
DescriptionBlack History/Historical/ 1st grade-Adult
A portrayal of Hank's life as a Major League Baseball Player for the Atlanta Braves.
DescriptionBlack History/Historical/All Ages
A portrayal of Jackie's life from youth through the
end of his career with a focus on his life as a Bridge Builder.
Poem: The Bridge Builder by Will Allen Dromgoole
DescriptionBlack History/Historical/2nd Grade - Adult
A poartrayal of Congressman John Lewis from his early life to his career of getting into Good Trouble through the Civil Rights Movement and beyond.
DescriptionBlack History/Historical/POETRY 3rd & up
A portrayal of Maya's Life from youth throughout her career.
POEMS: Still I Rise
When I Think About Myself
DescriptionBlack History/Women's History Month/Historical/1st grade up to Adult
Ruby Bridges at her current age of 61 as of 2021, telling of her experience as the first black child to integrate a southern white school in the 1950's, in the United States.
DescriptionBlack History/Personal/Adult/3rd & up
Josie's personal journey as written by Josie of her escape from circumstances in her life, to the exhilaration of freedom!
DescriptionBlack History/Personal/Adult/3rd & up
Josie's personal journey as written by Josie of her escape from circumstances in her life, to the exhilaration of freedom!
DescriptionIntroduction to JUNETEENTH:
What is Juneteenth and why do we celebrate it! A brief history of how the holiday came about.
DescriptionWellness/All Ages
Using Laughter, Josie helps students find relaxation through the use of "Affirmations!"
DescriptionWellness!
Using the alphabets to keep you laughing with deep breathing exercises!
DescriptionWellness
Helps students release stress and relax with laughter, oinking and meowing!
Description28.00 minutes: A full Laughter Yoga session lead by Josie Bailey and Celeste Greene with deep breathing through laughter and relaxation exercises!
DescriptionCherokee Indian Folktale/Adult/Child
This folktale gives us insight into the first man, the first woman, the first love and the first argument!
Description
Classic Folktale/child Time 10:43
The Little Red Hen lives tries to convince some very lazy animals, to help her plant and harvest some food.
DescriptionFairy Tale/Child
A traditional Fairy Tale where the sly fox is secretly watching the Little Red Hen while plotting how he can have her for his dinner!
DescriptionBlack History/Personal/Adult/3rd & up
Personal story as written by Josie of a few hilarious memories of she and her Mama!
DescriptionChild
Math is the only language that's shared by everyone on the planet. The multiplication facts are taught through Hip Hop music and catchy rhythms!
DescriptionBlack History/Adult/Child
A list of Negro Spirituals, which also includes a couple of Civil Rights songs, performed by Josie!
DescriptionHuman Interest All Ages
An inspiring and motivational story of the power of love and understanding for those who are different from us.
DescriptionMusical/Child/Fun
A mixture of favorite children nursery rhymes with a challenge to sing a rhyme in time or be Thrown Out The Window!
DescriptionAmerican Poets
1. I Hear America Singing
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
2. The New Collosus
Emma Lazarus (18-49-1887)
3. America
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
4. My People
Langston Hughes (1901-1967)
5. Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
DescriptionPoems of Emily Dickinson
1. I’m Nobody
2. The Bee Is Not Afraid of Me
3. A Book
4. A Word
5. If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
6. Because I Could Not Stop for Death
7. Bequest
8. I Never Saw A Moor
DescriptionBlack History/Grade 6 - Adults/10 minutes
Short biographical sketch with poems: In the Morning & When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers
DescriptionJosie's personal encounter with Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry in elementary school that changed the course of her life. Follow Josie from being a shy school girl to becoming a Master Professional Storyteller for the past 30 years!
DescriptionPaul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) Bio
1. In The Morning
2. When They Listed Colored Soldiers
3. Encouragement
4. An Ante-Bellum Sermon
5. A Letter
Description Poems of Inspiration and Life Philosophy
1. Invictus
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
2. The House by the Side of the Road
Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)
3. If
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
4. Thinking
Walter D Wintle (1871-1953)
5. I Know My Soul
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
Description Poems on Nature
1. I Wandered Lonely as A Cloud
William Wordsworth (British 1770-1850)
2. Deep in the Quiet Woods
James Weldon Johnson (American 1871-1938)
3. Trees
Joyce Kilmer (American 1886-1918)
4. Wind
Gwendolyn Bennett (1902-1981)
DescriptionPoems with short historical sketch - Grade 6 - Adult
Bio, The Raven & Annabel Lee
Description Poems for Children
1. Clouds
Anonymous
2. The Tyger
William Blake (1757-1827)
3. Who Has Seen The Wind?
Christina Rosetti (1830-1894)
4. My Shadow
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
5. The Crocodile
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
6. Antigonish [I met a man who wasn’t there]
Hughes Mearns (1875-1965)
DescriptionFairy Tale/Adult/Child
A 2020 Pandemic version of a hungry storyteller, named Josie, as she travels through a neighborhood looking for kids to share a story for a meal.
DescriptionFable/Pre-k - 3rd grade/8 minutes
The farmer and the audience learn the valuable lesson that you can't please everyone so you should do what works best for you!
DescriptionClassic English Fairy Tale/Adult/Child
A Fairy Tale of a poor fisherman, his greedy wife and a magical fish. Greed leads to no good end.
DescriptionBlack History/African Folktale/Child
A little man discovers that what he is searching for has been on the inside of him all the time.
DescriptionChinese Folktale/Adult/Child
A hardworking woodcutter discovers a magic pot that changes his life forever!
DescriptionAdult/High School/
Irish Folktale
A man on a journey to find his luck but in the end discovers that his luck was all around him and that he only had to look for it.
DescriptionBlack History/Fable/Child
The Selfish Crocodile realizes that he needs the help of the other animals in the forest.
DescriptionEnglish Fairy Tale/Child
A hungry wolf sets his sights on a family of seven little goats for his dinner.
DescriptionEnglish Fairytale/Child
A tale of three Billy Goats, who happened to be brothers, that have to develop a plan to get from one side of the meadow's bridge to the other side while outwitting the Mean Giant Troll.