{"id":14525,"date":"2011-09-07T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=14525"},"modified":"2011-09-07T09:46:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T13:46:21","slug":"teach-kids-diversity-marlo-thomas-free-to-be-you-and-me-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=14525","title":{"rendered":"Teach Kids Diversity: Marlo Thomas&#8217; Free to Be You And Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000F2CC0E\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=harlemcondoli-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=B000F2CC0E\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14532\" title=\"free to be you and me\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/screen-shot-2011-09-06-at-2-53-00-pm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/screen-shot-2011-09-06-at-2-53-00-pm.png 308w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/screen-shot-2011-09-06-at-2-53-00-pm-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/screen-shot-2011-09-06-at-2-53-00-pm-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many words come to mind when I think of Harlem. \u00a0One is always diversity.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most formative teachings I encountered in this regard growing up was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000F2CC0E\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=harlemcondoli-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=B000F2CC0E\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Free To Be You And Me&#8221;. \u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who are not familiar with it, it is timeless &#8211; and as important today as it was then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">There are thousands upon thousands of children&#8217;s albums out there, but the one that quietly left its mark with more &#8217;70s children than perhaps any other album was this disc.\u00a0<em>Free to Be&#8230;You and Me<\/em>\u00a0was a pet project of proud feminist Marlo Thomas (a.k.a. &#8220;That Girl&#8221;), and it was born&#8211;according to the liner notes&#8211;by the desire to provide her niece with music &#8220;to celebrate who she was and who she could be.&#8221; Harry Belafonte sings &#8220;Parents Are People,&#8221; ex-football great Rosie Grier offers an incredible, touching melody titled &#8220;It&#8217;s All Right to Cry,&#8221; and Diana Ross waxes future-positive on &#8220;When We Grow Up.&#8221; A great hour of brain food for young&#8211;and not-so-young&#8211;children.\u00a0<em>&#8211;Denise Sheppard on Amazon.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Please take a moment to learn \/ hear more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000F2CC0E\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=harlemcondoli-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=B000F2CC0E\" target=\"_blank\">here. \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many words come to mind when I think of Harlem. \u00a0One is always diversity. One&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":832535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62617969,124718155],"tags":[1270522,124718141,2555342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14525"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14575,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525\/revisions\/14575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}