Through community walks around students’ neighborhoods, educators and school staff can learn from those they teach, creating a stronger and more responsive school community.
A Southern Poverty Law Center lawyer relates to a student who has been suspended repeatedly from a Florida school district where the Center is challenging the discriminatory treatment of African-American children.
Henry Highland Garnet was an African-American abolitionist, minister, educator and newspaper editor. Garnet delivered “An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America” at the National Negro Convention in Buffalo, N.Y., on Aug. 16, 1843.
The Black Panther Party’s newspaper article covers the 1971 acquittal on conspiracy charges for fellow members Ericka Huggins and Bobby Seale. In the article, BPP members also address issues like police brutality, urban poverty and political prisoners.
The article, written by Larry Neal, talks about the Black Arts Movement in depth: the beauty, the pain, the struggle and progress. Neal also talks about Black power, Black nationalism and the Black aesthetic.