Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 1, 2024

On Monday, April 8, Julius B. Fleming Jr. will introduce the role of Black theater in the Black Freedom Struggle and the concept of “Black patience.” In conversation with educator Jessica Rucker, he will discuss: Black theater as a space in which Black people rehearsed and staged Black freedom and liberation, The role of Black theater and Black theater workers in the successes of the Civil Rights Movement and how they helped engage a base of Black people who might not have otherwise embodied B

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Perspectives in Anthropology

JANUARY 1, 2024

Written by Neil Turner Almost three decades ago, while at graduate school in California studying anthropology, I had a colleague and classmate from Japan. Her name is Yoshi. We had several classes, laboratories and seminars together and spent a lot of time in each other's company.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 1, 2024

Abby MacPhail, a high school teacher at the United Nations International School in New York City, shares a powerful story about her students’ study of Rosa Parks through the lens of identity and resistance. I used the young readers’ edition of The Rebellious Life of Ms. Rosa Parks with my grade 9 students as part of our unit on “Identity and Resistance.

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Life and Landscapes

JANUARY 1, 2024

Introduction This is a journey log. One of culture, history, and scientific exploration. A recognition that, when we focus on the significant, we often ignore the peripheral things of interest. And there is much to learn about in those places. I love Kentucky, its people, its culture, and its landforms. And I love the fact that we share this land with such a diversity of life forms living on ancient bedrock never covered by glaciers.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 1, 2024

The SNCC Legacy Project is hosting a livestreamed roundtable conversation on Art & Culture in the Movement with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) veterans and humanities scholars on Friday, February 2 at 7:00 p.m. ET. Art and culture were central to how SNCC engaged with communities during the Civil Rights Movement. SNCC hired and trained photographers; gave cameras to local people; and used community-based collaboration to create film strips and other visual materials as educ

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

In Memoriam: Sharon James Information Ar… Mon, 01/01/2024 - 11:15 Image Originally posted at [link]. Sharon L. James, Professor of Classics at UNC-Chapel Hill, passed away on Thursday, December 28, 2023. To call her teaching “influential” and her work “groundbreaking” feels incommensurate with the profound impact she had on students, colleagues, friends, and scholars worldwide.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 1, 2024

The right wing twists Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words to attack anti-racist education, focusing almost exclusively on MLK’s “I have a dream” declaration. But Dr. King was a radical — in the most profound sense. He denounced the Vietnam war, when it was politically risky, and did not mince words about U.S. racism: “The doctrine of white supremacy was imbedded in every textbook and preached in practically every pulpit.

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