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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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“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

The Hechinger Report

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. Teachers certainly will have to adjust some of our pedagogy, and extended deadlines might just become a norm, or having more flexibility about how kids are able to complete assignments. Sharahn Santana, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.