We are pleased to welcome two organizers to our Zinn Education Project team to support teachers as they plan for the pledge to Teach Truth Days of Action in late August and beyond. 

Athletes are collaborating to support teachers who have pledged to teach truthfully about U.S. history in the face of initiatives around the country that would prohibit educators from teaching forthrightly about our country’s history of racial inequality and how this has shaped our society today.

A generous group of donors has funded another round of Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups, for the 2021-2022 school year. This is a free professional learning opportunity.

Student testimony at a school board meeting in Wisconsin.

Photos from around the country as teachers and allies rally to #TeachTruth in the face of the GOP bills to ban the teaching of history.

To raise public awareness about the danger of the state bills that limit the teaching of history, educators will take a public stand at historic sites on Saturday, June 12, 2021.

Zinn Education Project team member and Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian spoke on CBS News about the increasing number of GOP bills to prohibit the teaching of Black history.

The Zinn Education Project is one of CREDO’s grant recipients for the month of May. 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.

In January of 2021, two bills were proposed in Arkansas to restrict teaching about race, social class, solidarity, and the 1619 Project. Similar bills are being proposed in a growing number of states.

Clint Smith spoke with educators about his new book, How the Word Is Passed, and related classroom resources.

Pat Michelsen and Eric Dean generously offered to match donations up to $15,000 in support of the Zinn Education Project Teach Reconstruction campaign.

Dr. Tera W. Hunter was in conversation with Jeanne Theoharis about the historical context for the election victory in Georgia and to share insights from her research into freed women's lives, including the striking washerwomen of Atlanta.

Beginning in late March 2020, the Zinn Education Project, in collaboration with Dr. Theoharis and dozens of scholars and activists, launched online classes for educators with people’s historians.

In an International Women's Day online class, part of the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle campaign, the authors of A Black Women's History of the United States shared stories and insights from their book.

North Carolina teachers are invited to attend an interactive, introductory workshop on the Zinn Education Project.

Thank you to athletes Shaquill and Shaquem Griffin, and the artist Keegan Hall, whose signed prints of his piece "Griffin Brothers" will benefit our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle campaign.

Generous donors made it possible for us to send people's history books and lessons to teachers in Mississippi, to counter the "Patriotic Education Fund."