Friday report: This week 159 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Modesto, CA; Storrs, CT.; Hagerstown, MD; Buffalo, NY; Kent, OH; Portland, OR; Marietta, PA; Providence, RI; Ladson, SC; Seattle, WA; Bridgeport, WV; & many more cities.
Some reasons why ⬇️

Thur. May 16: Panel on banned books at Four Freedoms Park Conservancy, Roosevelt Island in NY with Katrina vanden Heuvel (@thenation), Nick Buron (@QPLNYC), Amy Mikel (@BKLYNlibrary), Megan Pamela Ruth Madison, & Christine Emeran (@ncacensorship).

Free. Open to the public. RSVP⬇️
fdrfourfreedomspark.org/event/banned-b…

Join Abolitionist Teaching Network and dozens of other organizations around the U.S. for the #TeachTruth Day of Action on Saturday, June 8, to defend the freedom to learn. Learn more and sign-up at the link in our bio.

I get tired of the ways MLK & the civil rights movement are weaponized against young people and today's movements. It's a tremendous distortion of how King understood the power & necessity of disruption & his critique of police in repressing dissent: time.com/6975559/mlk-ga…

#tdih 1933

'History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before . . . .' -- Helen Keller in letter to German students planning to burn books, incl. her own work, 'How I Became a Socialist.' Read⬇️
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We agree. ⬇️ If you've not already -- listen to this powerfully told story. It exposes the abuse under the guise of education for Black children -- and the brave, interracial alliances and strategies used to expose the crimes, and the repression & slander they faced. #TeachTruth

There is only ONE place to be on eve of Monday, May 13: that is tuned it to learn about 'SNCC and Black Power' from veterans Jennifer Lawson, Judy Richardson, Courtland Cox, & historian Dr. Emilye Crosby, moderated by educator Jessica Rucker. The SNCC Legacy Project
sncclegacyproject.org/sncc-black-pow…

This election year, Zinn Ed Project aims to spread awareness about anti-history education laws' chilling effects on democracy. Join #TeachTruth Day of Action (June 8) by hosting an event that defends the right to #TeachTruth !

More on how to get involved: zinnedproject.org/teach-truth

Teaching about America’s racist past—and present—is infinitely more difficult in this moment. On this National Teacher Day, some honest and piercing words from James Baldwin (1963) that are very much still relevant today.

c/o Zinn Ed Project
#teachtruth

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