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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

Philip Shabecoff

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6-8 9-12

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Civil Rights Movement

July 7, 2022

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Teaching Hard History Podcast Series

Host Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., brings us the hard history of the United States from slavery through the Jim Crow era and the Civil Rights Movement — with relevance to today’s issues.

January 30, 2018

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September 6, 2022

Black Visibility Matters: The Inconvenient Truths of Bias and Erasure

A smiling young black child stands in front of board filled with scientific formulas.

Racial stereotypes and myths persist only with our continuous active consent—in the stories we teach and tell, and those we don’t. And the price we pay for this is monumental.

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Rights & Activism

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September 17, 2020

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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Gender & Sexual Identity

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October 1, 2019

A Crooked Seat at the Table: Black and Alone in an Honors Class

Educator Kiara Lee-Heart was often the only Black student in her high school honors classes. Here’s what she wishes her teachers—and all educators—knew about that experience.

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Celebrate Juneteenth With a Commitment to Disrupt the Continuum of Hard History

Learning for Justice is relaunching the Teaching Hard History podcast series with host Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., to resist current efforts to erase and alter our nation’s history. As we celebrate Juneteenth, we uplift liberation and Black joy and culture. And we commit to learning and teaching the hard history that is foundational to the United States and the ongoing movement for freedom and equality.

Teaching Hard History Podcast Series
Slavery and the Civil War, Part 1
Teaching Hard History: American Slavery |Key Concepts Videos

June 18, 2025

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November 15, 2021

Students Lose When Black Women Aren’t Supported

To mitigate the harm against Black students and all children of color in schools, we must love and support Black women in school leadership roles.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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Music Reconstructed: Dom Flemons, Black Cowboys and the American West

Installment 2 From ranches to railroads, learn about the often unrecognized role that African Americans played in the range cattle industry, as Pullman porters and in law enforcement. In part two of this special series

March 18, 2022

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Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action 2019

Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action is February 4-8! In this edition of The Moment, learn more about how you can join social justice educators from Philadelphia to Seattle in affirming and centering black lives in your classroom, school and beyond.

Black Lives Matter Week of Action
Why Teaching Black Lives Matter Matters | Part I
Let's Talk! Teaching Black Lives Matter

February 1, 2019

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Black Soldiers: Global Conflict During Jim Crow

Episode 9, Season 4 U.S. involvement in world wars and the domestic Black freedom struggle shaped one another. By emphasizing the diverse stories of servicemen and women, historian Adriane Lentz-Smith situates Black

December 13, 2021

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