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Five Questions for Stephanie Jones
Bound for Sainthood
One Year Later: Reflections on Charleston
Black History Month: Celebrating Black Liberation Movements
This Black History Month, we’re encouraging educators to recognize and teach that Black history includes narratives that don’t focus solely on trauma. While it’s imperative to teach about the realities of racial oppression, it’s just as important to engage students with the many ways Black people have consistently and powerfully resisted white supremacy. For the next week, we’ll be sharing some of our favorite resources for celebrating Black liberation movements.
- Black History Month: Teaching Beyond Slavery
- Black Lives Matter Week of Action
- Resistance Means More Than Rebellion
Celebrate the Lives of Two Change Makers
Today we celebrate the lives and work of Rep. John Lewis and the Rev. C.T. Vivian. We’re eternally grateful for their lifelong, courageous activism. As we remember these leaders’ relentless pursuit of equality, we hope educators will join us in continuing to work for justice and liberation for all. And we hope young people will join us in holding Representative Lewis, the Rev. Vivian and other change makers as models for who we can be when we decide to make “good trouble.”
- President Obama's Address on the 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday
Resources for Confronting White Nationalism
Teaching About Voter Suppression and the 2020 Election
Voter suppression is not a thing of the past. It’s essential that students learn to identify it in history—and in this current election cycle. Including insight from Carol Anderson, John Lewis and others, these resources can help you teach about the Voting Rights Act, the historic back-and-forth fight for voting rights, the ways voter suppression manifests today and the ways young people are demanding better of the democratic process.
- Teach This: The Voting Rights Act
- The True History of Voting Rights
- Teach This: Texas Students Fight for Their Right to Vote