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My Pride Is Black, My Juneteenth Is Queer
The celebration of Pride and Juneteenth offers an opportunity for reflection on intersecting identities and highlights the need to support and make space for Black LGBTQ youth.
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'Tis the Season: Christianity and Jesus in Black and White
What message does a white Jesus send to Christians who are not white?
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How Are You Teaching Black History?
We hope you’ll join us—this February and year-round—in teaching Black history beyond trauma and helping students recognize the brilliance, strength and love this history represents. Here’s why that’s so important.
- Black History Month: Teaching the Complete History
- Ending Curriculum Violence
- Black History Month Teaching: Miseducation or Empowerment?
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Black History Month: Teaching Beyond Slavery
Avoid minimizing Black history; include the full human experience beyond enslavement.
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Criminalizing Blackness: Prisons, Police and Jim Crow
Episode 15, Season 4 After emancipation, aspects of the legal system were reshaped to maintain control of Black lives and labor. Historian Robert T. Chase outlines the evolution of convict leasing in the prison system
March 2, 2022
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Black Unionists Form Coalition: Organization Will Work for McGovern but Will Not Disband After Election, The New York Times (October 3, 1972)
Newspaper article describing Black laborers’ frustration with the mainstream labor movement and the 1972 formation of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
July 7, 2022
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Why Hard History Matters: Addressing the Legacy of Jim Crow
Episode 16, Season 4 Congressman Hakeem Jeffries represents New York’s 8th congressional district. Our final episode this season takes us to the U.S. House of Representatives for a conversation between Rep. Jeffries and
May 11, 2022
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Learn From, Honor and Celebrate Black History
Celebrate Black History Month and resist attempts to erase the democratic values of justice, equity, inclusivity and diversity — our nation’s strengths. Black history in the United States includes understanding Black people’s resilience and contributions to our nation, along with strategies for coalition-building and justice movements that are essential today. Learning for Justice offers the following resources to help discuss, teach and learn from Black history all year long.
- Learn From and Honor Black History
- Learning from the Civil Rights Movement
- Teaching Hard History Podcast Series
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Stop Talking in Code: Call Them Black Boys
A Black educator challenges colleagues to consider the school-based and societal implications of calling Black boys “Black males.”
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Building Black Institutions: Autonomy, Labor and HBCUs
Episode 8, Season 4 Historian Tera Hunter describes Black institution-building post-slavery and throughout the Jim Crow era, illustrating how Black workers reorganized labor to their advantage, despite virulent white
November 30, 2021