Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Online Class Recordings

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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June 12, 2023: Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw on Teaching Truthfully About U.S. History


May 8, 2023: Howard French on Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War


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: Ashley Farmer on Queen Mother Moore, Black Nationalism, and the Centuries-long Fight for Reparations


September 12: 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


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


July 10, 2020: Abolitionists and Reconstruction with Manisha Sinha


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


May 22, 2020: Black Left: 1930s to the Early 1950s with Robin D. G. Kelley 


May 8, 2020: Women in the Black Panther Party 


May 1, 2020: Rethinking Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with Jeanne Theoharis

 

 

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