By Della Hasselle — Alexander P. Tureaud Jr. couldn’t sleep, so he sat on a bench on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, where he had become the first black undergraduate student…
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The history-teaching wing of the Koch brothers empire is seeking to promote an alternate narrative to slavery. By Adam Sanchez, Zinn Education Project — Given that the billionaire Charles Koch has poured millions of dollars into eliminating the minimum wage and paid sick leave for workers, and that in 2015 he had the gall to compare his ultra-conservative mission to the anti-slavery movement, he’s probably the last person you’d want educating young people about slavery.
History class should be the last place where we stop talking about race. By Donald Earl Collins — It’s happened ever since I began teaching as a graduate student in 1991. Most semesters in which I have taught a course related to U.S. history, the complaint appears at least once on my students’ course evaluations: “too much time on race.”Whether at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon, Duquesne, George Washington…
“The Black Lives Matter at School movement is about dismantling the school-to-prison-pipeline and creating a school-to-justice-pipeline.” By Jesse Hagopian — Educators in America know all too well that the school-to-prison…
White supremacists have stepped up recruitment efforts on campuses across the nation. By Kali Holloway, AlterNet — In early 2017, Donald Trump took to his medium of choice to simultaneously…
A new report finds that the topic is mistaught and often sentimentalized—and students are alarmingly misinformed as a result. By Melinda D. Anderson — A class of middle-schoolers in Charlotte, North Carolina, was asked to cite “four reasons why Africans made good slaves.” Nine third-grade teachers in suburban Atlanta assigned math word problems about slavery and beatings. A high school in the Los Angeles-area reenacted a slave ship—with students’ lying on the dark…
Video: 44th African Liberation Day: Reparations, Resistance, Rebellion — Liberation Through Education, May 26, 2017 at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Guest speakers Dr. Ron Daniels, Dr….
But opposition decreases toward school vouchers By Arianna Prothero, Education Week — President Donald Trump’s vocal support for charter schools and private-school vouchers has had some school choice supporters wringing…
Watch This Video: Black Teacher Crisis A new study published by the Institute of Labor Economics finds that black children assigned a black teacher during elementary school performed better on…
The effort to repeal and replace health care is generating headlines, and the attempt to investigate our 45th President’s Russia connections is of high importance. The specious claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, too, has generated interest…
The effort to repeal and replace health care is generating headlines, and the attempt to investigate our 45th President’s Russia connections is of high importance. The specious claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower…
Friday, March 3, 2017 – Students of African descent and their friends at Havard and Universities in the Boston area will assemble to demand reparations to pay black student debt.
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