The Zinn Education Project hosts Teaching for Black Lives study groups each year. Applications are open now for the 2024-2025 school year.

Lessons, books, articles, films, and upcoming events on labor history.

We are thrilled to announce the 2024–2025 Teach the Black Freedom Struggle season of online classes — a series unlike any other professional development.

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.

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

Join the SNCC Legacy Project at an in-person or virtual event to learn more about SNCC’s organizing work from SNCC veterans and humanities scholars and to explore connections to your life and community.

Historian Mia Bay will discuss the her book, Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, which explores racial restrictions on transportation and resistance to the injustice. 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 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.

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.

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."

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