Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad joined educators Jesse Hagopian and T. J. Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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Thanks to a generous collaboration with Dartmouth College historian Matthew Delmont, the Zinn Education Project offered 14,000 copies of Delmont's book to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators, who shared a plan for using the text.
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Tuition-free opportunities for K–12 educators to study a variety of humanities topics.
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Resources about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., beyond the traditional narrative.
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The SNCC Legacy Project is hosting a livestreamed roundtable conversation on Art & Culture in the Movement with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) veterans and humanities scholars.
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New York City high school teacher Abby MacPhail shared this powerful story about her students' study of Rosa Parks.
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To counter attacks on history education, we secured donations from authors and publishers to increase classroom access to thousands of books on African American history.
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More than 10,000 teachers signed up to access people’s history lessons in 2023.
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Lawmakers continue to enact laws that will make it harder to vote. Help us reach more teachers with people's history lessons on voting rights in 2024.
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Journalist and author Norman Solomon joined Rethinking Schools editor and high school teacher Jesse Hagopian to discuss how Solomon’s book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, relates to coverage of current events in Palestine and Israel, and strategies for teaching media literacy.
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Online classes for educators on teaching the Black Freedom Struggle. People's historians interviewed by classroom teachers and teacher educators.
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This year the Earth shattered climate records, and the entanglement of militarism and fossil fuels reveals new atrocities every day. However, Hurricane Otis and other disasters that signal climate emergency receive little to no mainstream media coverage and context.
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In 2024, with your help, we can support and defend the right to teach truthfully.
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At least four public school teachers in Montgomery County, Maryland have been placed on administrative leave for public expressions of support for Palestinians. We invite everyone to join us in writing with concerns to the school board, city council, and school district leadership.
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On the first night of Chanukah, SNCC veteran and lifelong activist Dottie Zellner spoke at the NYC #ChanukahForCeasefire, sharing some of the history of Jewish people fighting for justice in the past century. Watch the video here.
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We mourn the loss of Palestinian and Israeli lives and grieve for those who have lost loved ones due to the ongoing occupation and massive bombardment. One cannot understand this tragedy without acknowledging its history.
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Check out this list of frequently downloaded lessons from the Zinn Education Project website in 2023.
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The Zinn Education Project team hosted seven interactive workshops, a dynamic exhibit, and two receptions during the 2023 NCSS conference in Nashville.
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Thanks to the support of dozens of donors, we met Dave Colapinto’s 2023 Giving Tuesday match offer.
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Thanks to a donation of books from the author and Dartmouth College, the Zinn Education Project is offered 10,000 paperback copies of Matthew Delmont's book on African Americans during WWII to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators, who had a plan for using the text.
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As the crisis intensifies in Palestine and Israel, we are hearing stories like this one about responses from colleagues and students. Let us know if you have used or adapted any of the teaching resources in this growing Zinn Education Project collection and/or what sort of support or restrictions you’ve encountered.
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Historian Michael Hines joined Cierra Kaler-Jones and Jesse Hagopian to discuss his book, A Worthy Piece of Work. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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For four years now, Teaching for Black Lives study groups have been sponsored by nurturing communities of anti-racist educators across the United States. This school year, more than 100 study groups are investigating what it means to teach for Black lives.
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To continue to support educators with free people’s history resources we need your help. The Right has a well-funded campaign to suppress the truth. Your donation defends teachers who #TeachTruth.
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Historian Blair L. M. Kelley joined Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian to discuss her book, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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