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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. King calls “ diaspora literacy ” to contend with the reflection of white supremacy in my paternal lineage and its connection to world history.

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

The Hechinger Report

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history.

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In Philadelphia, a symbol of police brutality comes down, and a monument to black student protesters will go up

The Hechinger Report

About 140 public school buildings are still named after Confederate leaders, according to a 2018 analysis by Education Week. The following year, she took African American history, a required course in Philadelphia schools that is an enduring legacy of the 1967 walkouts. But it really was.” Aden Gonzales, 17.

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

The Hechinger Report

The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring “American Reconstruction: The Untold Story,” a summer institute for teachers in grades K-12 in July 2018, at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. history and its legacy today.” Twenty-five teachers will be selected to attend. The materials can be downloaded free.

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