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We look forward to seeing you at our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes in 2025. Register today. Please donate so that more teachers receive free people’s history lessons, books, and classes and so we can defend their right to teach outside the textbook.

Mark Your 2025 Calendars

January 13

Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Class

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On Monday, January 13, Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian and Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones will discuss Hagopian’s latest book, Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education and the campaign to fight back against bans on books and education.


Our free Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online classes offer the chance to learn directly from leading scholars and to meet peers from across the country. Register today and invite your colleagues and/or students to join you.


ASL interpretation and professional development certificates are provided.

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January 25

Black Lives Matter at School

DC Area Online Curriculum Fair

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The D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice will host a virtual curriculum fair featuring keynote speaker Jesse Hagopian and workshops to uplift the national demands based in the Black Lives Matter guiding principles that focus on Black students’ school experience.


We invite educators around the country to connect virtually and prepare for the 2025 National Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action (February 3–7) and Year of Purpose.

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February 7 and 8

Black Power and the Organizing Tradition

Join SNCC veterans Charles McLaurin and Jennifer Lawson, and Movement historians Robert Greene and Emilye Crosby at Tougaloo College to learn about Black Power, SNCC, and organizing.


This is part of a series hosted by the SNCC Legacy Project and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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February 10

Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Class

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On Monday, February 10, historian Justene Hill Edwards, in conversation with Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian, will discuss Edwards’ book, Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank, a comprehensive account of the Freedman’s Bank and its depositors.


Well-researched, brilliantly analyzed, and compellingly told, Savings and Trust brings to life the dramatic expansion of America’s racial wealth gap with a focus on Black resourcefulness and trust and white betrayal and plunder during Reconstruction. — Kidada E. Williams, author of I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction


This class is in the Teach the Black Freedom Struggle series. Read what teachers say about the sessions.


Every Zinn Education Project session not only impacts my teaching, but unravels the damage done by whitewashed histories. You give me more tools to educate my students and make me a better teacher today. — social studies teacher, Kansas City, Kansas 


ASL interpretation and professional development certificates are provided.

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February 28

NCSS Proposal Deadline

Apply to present a workshop at the 2025 National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) conference in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 5–7. Or apply to review proposals. The more people’s history educators reviewing and presenting workshops the better! Read more.

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Teach Reconstruction

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Thanks to a donation of books from the University of North Carolina Press, we can offer you a copy of historian Kate Masur and illustrator Liz Clarke’s new graphic history, Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region, for your story about teaching with any of our Reconstruction lessons.

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Read about more giveaways of people’s history books, defying the censorship of book bans and anti-history education laws.

Rethinking Schools Magazine

Are you subscribed yet to Rethinking Schools magazine? It is filled with examples of social justice teaching, analyses of important policy issues, and listings of valuable resources.


No educator should be without Rethinking Schools.


Subscriptions make a great gift for educators in your life, or for yourself.

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