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The Fight for

Black History in Schools

Online Class on November 13

On Monday, November 13, 2023, historian Michael Hines will discuss his book, A Worthy Piece of Work: The Untold Story of Madeline Morgan and the Fight for Black History in Schools, which details how African American educator activists in the early 20th century created new curriculum around race and historical representation.


Hines will be in conversation with Jesse Hagopian and Cierra Kaler-Jones. Hagopian is a Rethinking Schools editor and on the Zinn Education Project leadership team. Kaler-Jones is executive director of Rethinking Schools.

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The Black Working Class

A People’s History

“The history of strikes today rests with Black history.”


“The importance of disrupting the false notion that the working class is white.”


These were just two comments from participants about what they learned from our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle class with Blair Kelley about her new book, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class.

Listen to a powerful excerpt in this audiogram. The full recording and resources are at the link below.

Recording and Resources

Teaching Resources

One cannot understand the crisis in the Middle East without acknowledging its history. As educators, our role is to help students grasp and analyze this history.

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While many education groups are providing resources for teaching about the crisis as a conflict rooted in antisemitism and Islamophobia, that sole emphasis is misleading. Students need to study how the current crisis is shaped in large part by settler colonial history, land, water, conditions of apartheid, and the geopolitical motivations of world powers. 


We offer a growing collection of resources to help students learn the roots of the current crisis, including lessons and articles from Rethinking Schools, books for K–12, podcasts, calls to action, and infographics.


We also add our voice to the call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Teaching Resources

Climate Emergency

Media Silence Compounds the Risk

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In October, Hurricane Otis crashed into Mexico’s Pacific coast with unprecedented strength and devastated Acapulco. In only 12 hours, Otis escalated from a tropical storm to a major hurricane, leaving the people in its path with nearly no time to prepare. The sudden danger and destruction of this storm follow a disturbing trend, as warming waters rapidly intensify hurricanes.


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. 

Our movements against unjust systems are all connected, and none can be sustained on an unlivable planet. Educators can equip students to: recognize the breadth of the climate emergency, grasp how it strikes unequally around the world, examine its social and economic causes, and come to see themselves as activists for a just society and a stable climate.


We offer Teach Climate Justice campaign resources, including free downloadable lessons, a climate crisis timeline, recommended books and films for the classroom, articles, and a sample school board climate justice resolution.

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Teaching guide from Rethinking Schools.

Teach Climate Justice

Join Us In Nashville

Annual Social Studies Teachers Conference

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Are you going to the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) annual conference in Nashville in early December?


If so, check out our workshops on Reparations, the Black Panther Party, climate justice, and more. Visit our interactive booth to learn about our people’s history lessons, climate crisis timeline, Reconstruction report, and Teaching for Black Lives study groups. Meet Rethinking Schools editors and see a collection of Rethinking Schools publications.

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Rethinking Schools

Fall Issue

The Rethinking Schools magazine is truly exceptional and provides thought-provoking information. — LaKesha Brantley, teacher, Newark, New Jersey

The fall issue of Rethinking Schools features:

  • three articles about Asian Americans and educational justice.
  • an interview with the teacher fired for questioning her district’s decision to bar students from singing “Rainbowland.”
  • an article on the need to include the roots of the climate crisis in world and U.S. history curricula.

Find these articles and more in the latest edition of Rethinking Schools magazine.


If you don’t already, subscribe today.

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We Need Your Help

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Teachers are under attack for teaching truthfully about U.S. history, foreign policy, and gender justice. Please donate so that we can continue to offer free people’s history lessons and resources and defend teachers’ right to use them.


Giving Tuesday is on November 28. Don’t wait until then. Donate today!

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