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OCTOBER 31, 2018

history class this year, she described the American revolution and then expanded on the lesson, making connections to historical events in Mexico, Central America, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere in the Caribbean. The show also adds hip hop – a genre created in the black community – to more traditional Broadway ballads.

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JUNE 9, 2020

It probably means you’re not regularly talking with them about current events and they’re not getting a good education about American history in school. Growing up in New Orleans, we taught him the Mardi Gras tradition of extending his arms as the floats go by and shouting, “Throw me something, mister!”

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Half American chronicles the lives of African Americans who fought in World War II and in the war against racism in the United States. Reading the book Half American has changed my perspective on teaching about World War II. Amanda Sandoval shared the slide instructions for the blackout poetry that she used for this activity.

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MARCH 28, 2022

The Forum did hold presentations at the time about textbooks and preserving a Christian, Western view of American history. Members remember discussing social issues, though not necessarily Alabama history or Norrell’s book in particular, and dispute a characterization that Norrell was targeted by the founder of Birmingham’s chapter.

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JUNE 15, 2022

We can plan events like we always had before. Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. Fourth graders got to have their traditional field day. Ben Lawson , band and choir director at Redmond High School. Things are back to normal. The students are adjusting.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The first thing to recall about that election is that in 1800 the American people did something no people had done before. For almost a decade prior to this unprecedented event, Republicans and Federalists had waged a bitter partisan contest that split Americans into hostile factions and destroyed personal friendships.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

Events of the last year, heightened still further by those of the last week that are moving toward a second impeachment of President Donald Trump have me worried about what’s been termed a legitimacy crisis in our country, one that risks finally severing our confidence in the nation’s ideals. This seems hard to do.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It’s in this tradition that we must continue to demand that our leaders and our schools embrace these values, too. I’m encouraging you to put the events of 2020 into the context of our legacy. Likewise, we must exercise our creed that it takes a village to raise a child, that we are indeed our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers.

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MARCH 1, 2022

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. Talking about all these [bend festival] events: We work. We spent all this time rehearsing to go to an event because it’s fun and exciting and to get feedback. And they aren’t seeing why you work so hard.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 22, 2025

One of the best way to engage the community in defending the right to learn history is with a local history walking tour. Along the way, participants learn about history they wish they had learned in school. For example, African Americans could work in the kitchen at the Tea Room in the Blacks Building, but could not eat there.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2016

” may be a way of sidestepping catastrophic thinking , a common feature of psychological anxiety in which people systematically and irrationally overstate the likelihood of a negative event. Money is siphoned from traditional public schools and towards a diverse array of unregulated for-profit and private providers.

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JANUARY 29, 2018

Black contributions to society are not being recognized in the pantheon of American history. As a young person, I remember learning about renowned surgeon Ben Carson and how he became the first to successfully separate twins at the head in a BLM event. Getting to a place where we can make history more inclusive is not easy.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Black contributions to society are not being recognized in the pantheon of American history. As a young person, I remember learning about renowned surgeon Ben Carson and how he became the first to successfully separate twins at the head in a BLM event. Getting to a place where we can make history more inclusive is not easy.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Event Recording Recording of the full session, except for the breakout rooms. It’s astonishing because what it turned out to be was that there was a tradition, a new tradition then, of counting the alumni of Black colleges in terms of their crime statistics. I will be at future classes. He did it at Hampton in 1905.

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