Follow The Drinking Gourd 🥤| Reading Rainbow 📖🌈 | Full Episode | ‪@Kidzuko

Season 11, Episode 6 - Follow The Drinking Gourd LeVar reflects on a time when Africans were brought to America as slaves. He talks about how African-Americans risked their lives for freedom, and discusses how the music from slavery times effected the African culture. Keith David reads the featured story, which explains that the African-American folk song, "Follow the Drinking Gourd," was in fact a coded message to slaves giving them instructions on how to take the Underground Railroad north to states that abolished slavery. For all the latest uploads of these great shows, subscribe to;    / @kidzuko   Reading Rainbow, available on digital. Reading Rainbow® first launched in 1983 as a children’s television series designed to encourage reading. Produced by WNED-Buffalo, Lancit Media Productions, and Great Plains National Instructional Television, the show ran for 155 episodes over 26 years, becoming the third-longest-running children’s TV series in US history. It ended in 2009 with 26 Emmys, a Peabody Award, and over 200 other broadcast awards. Reading Rainbow® and its logo are registered trademarks of Western New York Public Broadcasting Association (WNED-Buffalo). Check out the channel every day for new live streams, full episodes, brand new originals, clips, shorts, educational content and playlists of some of the most popular and trusted kids shows worldwide. From Octonauts, to The Creature Cases, fix-it whizz, Monkey with a Tool Belt, and evergreen classic Peter Rabbit our shows spark kids’ curiosity and imaginations - they can explore the depths of the ocean, get to grips with monster machines and solve wildlife mysteries – all with guaranteed laughter along the way! #readingrainbow #educationalvideosforkids #kidzuko