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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. On the Wednesday following the A.P.

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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

It was startling, Nia thought, how studying history could leave her feeling the same heaviness she’d felt scrolling social media after police had killed Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Laquan McDonald, young Black people of her own generation. It was the summer of 2019, and Nia was 15. Along with four of her classmates from Julia R.

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2024 Post-Election Reflection Series: The Role of Institutions in the 2024 Messaging Post-mortem

Political Science Now

Despite the fact that President Biden and congressional Democrats entered 2024 with accomplishments like infrastructure reform, caps on prescription drugs, and one of the strongest economic rebounds in American history, 66 percent of voters still felt that Democrats had accomplished little or nothing.