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.
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Extreme weather events like those that plunged huge swathes of the United States into freezing temperatures, darkness, danger, and fear in Feb. 2021 are becoming increasingly common.
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COINTELPRO and the Black Panther Party are back in the headlines. Let’s also make sure to teach this critical history in our classrooms.
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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."
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Resources for students and educators from a class about Julian Bond and the long history of the Southern voting rights struggle, told through first-person accounts.
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How to contextualize and frame the two major political events of Jan. 6, 2021: An historic grassroots organizing victory in Georgia and an attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol.
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On January 11, 2021, to celebrate the launch of a new book, Jeanne Theoharis spoke about Rosa Parks’ activism prior to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, her trip to the Highlander Folk School, and the decades she dedicated to challenging racism in the North.
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Here are various ways that everyone can support and advocate for the teaching of people's history.
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U.S. history reveals both the roots of our cruel status quo and its possible antidote. Young people deserve an education that helps them understand how and why we are in this wretched mess, but never leaves them hopeless.
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Here is a reason to look forward to 2021 — new people's history books.
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On Thursday, Sept. 17, at the White House Conference on American History, right-wing historians took aim at the Zinn Education Project, Howard Zinn, and the New York Times 1619 Project.
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In the fall of 2020, we launched 28 Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups across the United States.
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These lessons teach students the history of the Black freedom struggle — from resistance to enslavement to redlining to the ongoing fight for voting rights and reparations — in the United States.
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In response to the governor's proposed "Patriotic Education Fund," we ask for your help to provide people's history books and lessons to Mississippi middle and high school teachers and librarians.
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We work around the clock to provide resources to teachers and students in the COVID-19 pandemic. We need your help to continue this work in 2021.
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In a people's history online class, Professor Kidada Williams and Tiffany Mitchell Patterson discussed African American survivors of racist violence in the context of Reconstruction, drawing parallels to the contemporary moment.
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Recording and resources from the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle class on "Paul Robeson, Political Outlaw: Lessons for Today from the Black Radical Tradition," featuring Dr. Greg Carr in conversation with Jesse Hagopian
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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves' state budget proposal include three million dollars for a “Patriotic Education Fund,” which argues that "the United States is the greatest country in the history of the world."
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In the wake of the election, now is the time to draw our students’ attention to the long struggle for voting rights in the United States — and the equally long struggle to suppress these rights.
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Lessons inspired by Lovecraft Country, developed by teachers in the Ida B. Wells Education Project.
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Jesse Hagopian’s article “How you can help Black Lives Matter at School” and the Zinn Education Project offer ways educators, parents, students, and anti-racist organizers can support the Year of Purpose and support Black students.
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Prof. Charles M. Payne led a class about post-WWII organizers for voting rights in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Find resources to teach about Indigenous Peoples' Day and to help students learn the real history of Christopher Columbus.
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Interactive classes about the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the largest Superfund toxic waste site in the Western Hemisphere.
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Find lessons to teach current issues such as the climate crisis, voter suppression, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, and more.
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