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Banned Book Swaps, Tours, Teach-Ins, Art

Teach Truth Day of Action

High school student in Chula Vista.

If only we could go to all the Teach Truth Day of Action events.

• Teach-in on LGBTQ+ history at the Stonewall Inn in New York.
• History walking tours start from the Foot Soldiers Monument in St. Augustine, Florida, and from the Sojourner Truth statue in Northampton, Massachusetts.
• Reading of a new children’s book by a descendant of the Rosewood Massacre at the Rosewood marker in Florida.
• Albuquerque bookstore banned books display and photo booth.
• Delivery of banned books to the hospital where Earl Little died in Lansing, Michigan.
• Talk by a SNCC veteran in D.C. about the connection between the attack on voting rights and teaching history.
• Banned books swap at the Sacred African Burial Ground in Richmond.
• Workshops based on Fugitive Pedagogy by Jarvis Givens in Nashville.
• Talk on the history of redlining; free books; and lunch at an abolitionist bookstore in Montgomery, Alabama.
• and dozens more!

Spotlight

Teaching for Black Lives Study Group

Since 2020, the Zinn Education Project has hosted hundreds of Teaching for Black Lives study groups. Teachers discuss how to teach for Black lives and gain the strength to face right-wing attacks. There is power in numbers. We periodically spotlight Teaching for Black Lives groups.

The Connecticut Teaching for Black Lives study group is made up of 15 teachers of color from across the state. They meet monthly online to “learn from each other and find creative new ways to build co-conspiratorship with other staff members in school to get at the most fundamental work — that Black students matter in school and in our society.”

When Jennifer Heikkila Diaz, an educator coach and study group coordinator, applied to lead a group for the second year, she said:

Applications are open for Teaching for Black Lives study groups for the 2023–2024 school year.

We need your support to double the number of study groups in 2023–2024.

Free Book

Share Your Teaching Story

Thanks to a generous donation by the author and publisher, we can send teachers a free copy of the new young adult novel by Kelly McWilliams, Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay in appreciation for a story about teaching any of the lessons at the Zinn Education Project website.

Join Us for Class With

Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw

Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw, co-founder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum, will be our featured speaker on Monday, June 12 as part of the 2023 Teach Truth Day of Action.

Crenshaw has described the right’s use of CRT as a “classic kind of disinformation propaganda campaign that comes from moments like these when a particular group of people have no agenda other than a fear-mongering, scapegoating agenda. This is a tried and true strategy. So the main thing I want people to try to do is consider the source, draw the connections, see where the funding is coming from, see where the contradictions are.”

In her conversation with Jesse Hagopian and Cierra Kaler-Jones, Crenshaw will shed light on those sources and contradictions — and how we can fight back.

ASL and professional development certificates provided.

More events including Transformative Justice Coalition Stay Woke Florida Rolling Protest; Roots to Revolution Queer in America history course; and the Center for K–12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education annual Teaching Black History Conference.

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