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Counter Censorship Efforts by Uplifting BLM at School

The annual National Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action for 2023 is February 6-10. The guiding principles behind this event can be an important frame through which to reimagine more liberatory educational spaces for Black children and—as these LFJ resources indicate—for all children. This Black History Month, be intentional in countering censorship efforts.

  • Black Lives Matter Week of Action
  • Bringing Black Lives Matter Into the Classroom | Part II
  • Black Visibility Matters: The Inconvenient Truths of Bias and Erasure
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Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D.

Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, the nation’s leading institution for educating African-American men. While matriculating at Morehouse, he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and initiated into the Pi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. After graduating summa cum laude from Morehouse with a B.A. in history in 1994, Jeffries enrolled at Duke University, where he earned a M.A. in American history in 1997, and a Ph.D. in American history with a specialization in African American history in 2002. While completing his graduate work
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The Silencing of Mary Dyer

In this chapter, Carnes details oppression experienced by the early New England colonists. In particular, he chronicles Mary Dyer’s path from a once uncomfortably conforming Puritan to an outspoken Quaker unshaken by threats, banishment and even death.
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Jim Carnes
Grade Level
9-12
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Religion Immigration Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism
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History
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Identity Diversity Justice Action
January 23, 2017