Although there are many ways educators can
participate in the week of action, we hope educators will make a commitment to teach a wide variety of lessons centering Black history and literature.
Disrupt racist mythologies about who is responsible for the end of slavery by introducing students to a wide variety of Black abolitionists.
Highlight a too often overlooked but powerful moment in the Black freedom struggle by teaching about Reconstruction---- a time, like our own, when activists sought to make Black Lives Matter.
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