On Sept. 16, 2024, historian Kellie Carter Jackson will discuss We Refuse, which is a reframing of the past and present of Black resistance — both nonviolent and violent — to white supremacy. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Online classes for educators on teaching the Black Freedom Struggle. People's historians interviewed by classroom teachers and teacher educators.

We are thrilled to announce our second class of Zinn Education Project Prentiss Charney fellows for the 2024–2026 school years. The fellowship offers support for a cohort of people’s history educator leaders to study, learn, and organize together for two years.

Historians Jarvis Givens and Imani Perry will discuss the Black Teacher Archive, which centralizes materials created by professional organizations of African American educators, historically referred to as Colored Teachers Associations (CTAs). This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

With the airwaves full of inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants and the border a hot election topic, we provide lessons, teaching guides, and other recommended resources for teaching honestly and critically about immigration.

Historian John Avery Dittmer (October 30, 1939 – July 19, 2024) was the author of key texts on SNCC and grassroots organizing in Mississippi.

On Jan. 13, 2025, educator Jesse Hagopian will discuss Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education, and the campaign to fight back against bans on books and education. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

We seek to hire a communications and development manager for the Zinn Education Project, coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change.

On Dec. 2, 2024, scholar Orisanmi Burton will discuss his book Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

We shipped an interactive pop-up display to sites all over the United States for the Teach Truth campaign. Groups are sharing the display at Pride festivals, bookstores, farmers's markets, schools, Juneteenth celebrations, and more.

Check out this list of frequently downloaded lessons from the Zinn Education Project website during the 2023–2024 school year.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer, a voting rights campaign with lessons for today.

In this election year, educators are hosting more than 170 #TeachTruth events to challenge the media silence and encourage everyone to defend the freedom to learn. Here are descriptions and photos from some of the events.

Children’s future depends on what they learn today.

On June 4, the Zinn Education Project hosted a Press Call about the 4th Annual National Teach Truth Day of Action.

On Nov. 18, 2024, documentary filmmaker Yoruba Richen (and others from the film) will discuss : American Coup: Wilmington 1898, a new American Experience PBS documentary directed by Richen and Brad Lichtenstein that examines a white supremacist massacre of Black residents of Wilmington, North Carolina. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

In this election year, educators and allies are planning creative Teach Truth Day of Action events all over the country.

We feature lessons, articles, and other resources to teach about the Tulsa Massacre and the ongoing struggle against institutionalized racism.

On Oct. 7, 2024, scholar Brian Jones will shed light on the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the North and ways that those stories can be included in the curriculum. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

We invite educators, students, parents, and community members to host an information table or an event at a historic site to defend the freedom to learn and LGBTQ+ rights on June 8, 2024.

On this Memorial Day weekend, we feature two articles: one about the early origins of the holiday, led by African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina after the Civil War, and the second by Howard Zinn urging us to "destroy the weapons of death that . . . threaten our children and grandchildren."