Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

He has written for and consulted with museums and galleries, and was co-curator of the acclaimed exhibition Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Ramsey will be in conversation with Jesse Hagopian.

History 52

History Museum American History Leadership 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Maikko, 2, in pink, Terrance, 1, in red, and Nylah, behind Terrance, dance as their child care provider, Lorna Parks, foreground, claps during a visit by staffers from Detroit’s African-American History Museum. After graduating high school, she began working at a child care center for teen mothers.

K-12 84

K-12 Primary Sources Museum History 84

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

One day this spring, Victoria Trice’s high school students in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, peered through virtual reality headsets as part of a lesson on Afrofuturism. LOUISVILLE Just blocks from where hundreds of protestors gathered near the Ohio River waterfront after the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020 sits Central High School.

History 98

History American History Teaching K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

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.

Archiving 139

Archiving Museum History Primary Sources 139

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Moten’s grandmother remembers her time at Roberts Vaux Junior High School fondly: the sewing classes, cheering at basketball games and swaying during dances in the gym. The Sharswood-Blumberg neighborhood surrounding Vaux, by then a high school, had begun to buckle from poverty, drugs and gun violence.

Museum 94

Museum High School Junior High Government 94

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Today, Black students are still segregated into schools with less funding , fewer experienced teachers and fewer rigorous courses. Social studies classes spend only 8 to 9 percent of their time on Black history, treating it as a niche topic instead of a core part of American history.

Museum 140

Museum Education American History History 140

Life and Landscapes

AUGUST 1, 2024

It was a time when a pacifist priest spoke to our high school class in protest. The National Civil Rights Museum, housed in the Lorraine Motel where he was killed, is worthy of your visit. A time when a nation was struggling to understand the truth behind what its leaders were saying. We must be winning. More of them are dying.

Museum 52

Museum History High School American History 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

The crowd cheered at the idea that people like them — mostly white, mostly male — were the true heroes of American history. Most Americans were appalled. High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence.

Teaching 140

Teaching Civics American History Controversial Topics 140

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

High school students hold a banner while marching to the South Boulder Recreation Center to vote and turn in election ballots in early voting in Boulder, Colorado on Thursday October 25, 2018. Black contributions to society are not being recognized in the pantheon of American history.

History 49

History Multicultural Education American History Heritage 49