Scholar Eve L. Ewing will discuss her book, Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism, an examination of how the U.S. school system helps maintain racial inequality and social hierarchies. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Historian Justene Hill Edwards discussed her book, Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank, a comprehensive account of the Freedman’s Bank and its depositors.. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

This Presidents Day, rather than mythologize past presidents as kinder and gentler than Trump, let's remind students that this country has been at its best when people have organized to question and challenge presidents — opposing presidential support for slavery, war, invasion, segregation, and injustice of all kinds. 

Tuition-free opportunities for K–12 educators to study a variety of humanities topics.

We offer this #TeachTruthSyllabus as a gesture of defiance and education. The Right would be happy to keep the conversation at the level of obfuscation, divorced from reality and history. We, on the other hand, want to talk about the truth — the truth about our past and present, the truth about our classrooms and curricula.

Hundreds of educators register for free each month at the Zinn Education Project to access lessons and other resources. Here’s why.

Educators are teaching in perilous times. We face a white supremacist backlash — funded by billionaires — against the 2020 uprising for Black lives, when tens of millions built a multiracial movement against systemic racism.

Call on NAIS to immediately correct the record and issue an apology to Dr. Suzanne Barakat and Prof. Ruha Benjamin. 

Educator Jesse Hagopian discussed his book, Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

In teaching about the wildfires in Los Angeles, include the role of incarcerated labor.

The Zinn Education Project co-hosted a booth at the American Historical Association annual meeting in New York from January 4–6, 2025.

Book offers for educators who share stories about teaching any of the lessons at the Zinn Education Project.

We invite educators, students, parents, and community members to host an information table or event to defend the right to #TeachTruth.

The Zinn Education Project is one of CREDO’s grant recipients for the month of January. This can make a huge difference. How much we receive depends on you. Your vote is critical and takes less than a minute. Cast your vote today.

As we fight the attacks on teaching and learning, it is critical that educators overcome isolation and ground ourselves in what we are fighting for. Our Teaching for Black Lives educator-led communities of study and reflection, launched in the fall of 2020, help provide that grounding.

More than 9,000 teachers signed up to access people’s history lessons in 2024, bringing our full registration at the Zinn Education Project to close to 170,000 teachers, with representation from every state.

In 2024, there were increased attacks on teaching history, including anti-CRT laws and book bans. To counter these attacks, we secured donations from authors and publishers to increase classroom access to books on people's history.

The Zinn Education Project stands in solidarity with those who have denounced Donald Trump’s racism,…

Thanks to a donation, the Zinn Education Project is offering copies of the book to middle and high school teachers with a plan for using and promoting the young readers' edition of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.

Thousands of teachers are learning the history missing from their own education, thanks to our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes.

The 2024 election revealed a troubling reality: Widespread miseducation and fear-mongering continue to shape political outcomes at the expense of people of color and marginalized communities.