The Sum of Us

Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Class

Join us on Monday, February 5 for a conversation with Heather McGhee about The Sum of Us: How Racism Hurts Everyone — the young readers’ edition of her bestselling book and the podcast companion series. McGhee will be interviewed by Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian and Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones.

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Teachers, teacher educators, and school librarians attending the class can request free copies of the young readers’ edition of The Sum of Us.

Our free classes offer the chance to learn directly from scholars and to meet peers from across the country.

ASL interpretation and professional development certificates provided.

Black Lives Matter at School

Week of Action

Here are selected resources for Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action (Feb. 5–9) and Black History Month.

Teaching Guide

Teaching for Black Lives is a moral lifeline for all educators looking to rehumanize our schools and society through education, love, and action.

— Awo Okaikor Aryee-Price, executive director, Education for Liberation Network

The Rethinking Schools guide, Teaching for Black Lives, is the core text for teacher study groups across the country. It includes lessons and articles for pre-K–12 educators.

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Seminar for Early Childhood Educators

Tuesday, Feb. 6

Join Rethinking Schools, Defending the Early Years, and Black Lives Matter at School for a conversation on Centering Collective Value in the Early Years. This webinar event celebrates Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action.

Pre-K–12 Books

Teaching for Change's Social Justice Books offers a list of recommended titles for pre-K–12 that center each of the Black Lives Matter 13 Guiding Principles.

The lists include Collective Value, Globalism, Unapologetically Black, and more.

Booklists

“We’re Dying Here”

Human Rights Watch on the Fight for Life in Louisiana’s Fossil Fuel Cancer Alley

A damning new Human Rights Watch report documents the devastating human toll of fossil fuel projects in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, an 85-mile corridor stretching from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, filled with fossil fuel and petrochemical plants. — Democracy Now! in an interview with report researcher Antonia Juhasz

Democracy Now!

Find related teaching resources at our Teach Climate Justice campaign.

Trans People’s History

Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture

Jules Gill-Peterson, associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, was the featured speaker for the 2023 Howard Zinn Lecture Series at Boston University.

She shared the impact of reading A People's History of the United States and presented an overview of 100 years of trans history in the United States.

The full recording and transcript are available at the Howard Zinn website, managed by Teaching for Change.

Lecture Video and Transcript

Teaching About Palestine-Israel

We continuously add resources to our teaching collection on Palestine-Israel, such as the excellent documentary The Occupation of the American Mind. Viewers learn the source of the propaganda repeated daily in mainstream media. The film streams for free in various lengths. We recently added Israelism, a documentary featured on Democracy Now! For daily news about the region, we recommend Democracy Now!

This Day in People’s History

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Upcoming dates of note in people’s history include Hercules Escapes from Enslavement by George Washington in 1797; First School Desegregation Suit in 1848; “Lift Every Voice and Sing” Was First Publicly Performed in 1900; Carter G. Woodson Launched Negro History Week in 1926; New York City School Children Boycott School in 1964; and many more.

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For Social Justice Educators

Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Online Classes

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The Zinn Education Project hosts one Teach the Black Freedom Struggle class a month with a people’s history scholar or journalist in conversation with an educator.

Class Schedule

NCSS 2024 Conference Proposal Deadline

Apply to present a workshop at the 2024 National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) conference in Boston on Nov. 22–24. Or apply to review proposals. The deadline is February 29. The more people’s history educators reviewing and presenting workshops, the better.

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