Below are recordings from the Zinn Education Project Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online classes. Each recording offers the chance to learn directly from leading people’s historians. Click the link following the date for each podcast to learn more about that particular session and find related teaching resources.
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October 7, 2024: Racism and Resistance in the North During the Civil Rights Movement
September 16, 2024: We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
May 6, 2024: Reparations and Climate Justice
April 8, 2024: Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation
February 5, 2024: Everyday Solidarity: Interracial Organizing Stories from The Sum of Us
January 8, 2024: Khalil Gibran Muhammad on The Condemnation of Blackness
November 13, 2023: Michael Hines on the Fight for Black History in Schools
October 16, 2023: Blair L. M. Kelley on Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
September 11, 2023: Teaching About the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
June 12, 2023: Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw on Teaching Truthfully About U.S. History
April 24, 2023: Linda Villarosa on Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
March 20, 2023: Kidada Williams on I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
February 6, 2023: Jeanne Theoharis on Starring Mrs. Rosa Parks: Film Excerpts and Behind the Scenes Commentary
January 23: 2023: Dayo Gore on Want to Start a Revolution? Black Women Radicals Confront the Red Scare
November 14, 2022: Matt Delmont on “We Return Fighting”: The Black Freedom Struggle During World War II
October 17, 2022: Ashley Farmer on Queen Mother Moore, Black Nationalism, and the Centuries-long Fight for Reparations
September 12, 2022: Alaina Roberts on Black Freedom on Native Land
August 24, 2022: People’s History Commemoration of Howard Zinn’s 100th Anniversary
June 6, 2022: Kelly Lytle Hernández on the 1910 Mexican Revolution
May 9, 2022: Kidada E. Williams “Seizing Freedom”
April 25, 2022: Johanna Fernández on the Young Lords
March 14, 2022: Vikki Law on Myths About Mass Incarceration
February 21, 2022: Martha Jones on Black Women in the Fight for Voting Rights
January 10, 2022: The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. You Won’t Read About in Textbooks with Jeanne Theoharis
December 6, 2021: Fugitive Pedagogy Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching with Jarvis Givens
November 8, 2021: The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World with Dave Zirin
October 5, 2021: Until Justice Be Done: The Civil Rights Movement Before the Civil War with Dr. Kate Masur
September 13, 2021: Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Hip-Hop History with Jeff Chang and Dave “Davey D” Cook
June 7, 2021: When South African Apartheid Was Overthrown: Lessons for the Movement for Black Lives Today (with Gerald Lenoir)
May 10, 2021: How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (with Cierra Kaler-Jones and Clint Smith)
April 26, 2021: The Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex (with Garrett Felber and Stephen Wilson)
March 22, 2021: The Atlanta Washerwomen’s Strike with Tera W. Hunter
March 8, 2021: A Black Women’s History of the United States with Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Feb. 15, 2021: Julian Bond and the Southern Civil Rights Movement: Focus on Georgia (with Jeanne Theoharis, Pamela Horowitz, and Judy Richardson)
Jan. 11, 2021: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks with Jeanne Theoharis
December 14, 2020: Reconstruction: Repression and Resistance
November 16, 2020: Paul Robeson, Political Outlaw: Lessons for Today from the Black Radical Tradition
July 10, 2020: Abolitionists and Reconstruction with Manisha Sinha
June 26, 2020: A History of Rebellions (w/ Jeanne Theoharis)
June 19, 2020: Reconstruction and Juneteenth with Greg Carr
June 12, 2020: Reconstruction and Issues of Citizenship, Suffrage, and Movement Building in the 19th Century with Martha Jones
June 5, 2020: Examining the Historical Roots of the 2020 Rebellion (w/ Keisha N. Blain)
May 29, 2020: Black Feminist Organizing: 1950s to the 21st Century (w/ Barbara Ransby)
May 22, 2020: Black Left: 1930s to the Early 1950s with Robin D. G. Kelley
May 15, 2020: Black Athletes and the Black Freedom Struggle
May 8, 2020: Women in the Black Panther Party
May 1, 2020: Rethinking Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with Jeanne Theoharis
April 24, 2020: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (w/ Courtland Cox & Judy Richardson)
April 19, 2020: Organizing for Voting Rights: Lessons from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
April 17, 2020: The Civil Rights Movement in the North (w/ Jeanne Theoharis)
April 10, 2020: Teenagers in the Civil Rights Movement (w/ Jeanne Theoharis)
March 27 & April 3, 2020: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks with Jeanne Theoharis, Parts I & II
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