Scholar Eve L. Ewing will discuss her book, Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism, an examination of how the U.S. school system helps maintain racial inequality and social hierarchies. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

Online classes for educators on teaching the Black Freedom Struggle. People's historians interviewed by classroom teachers and teacher educators.

Historian Justene Hill Edwards discussed her book, Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank, a comprehensive account of the Freedman’s Bank and its depositors. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

This Presidents Day, rather than mythologize past presidents as kinder and gentler than Trump, let's remind students that this country has been at its best when people have organized to question and challenge presidents — opposing presidential support for slavery, war, invasion, segregation, and injustice of all kinds. 

Tuition-free opportunities for K–12 educators to study a variety of humanities topics.

School board elections require our urgent attention.

Hundreds of educators register for free each month at the Zinn Education Project to access lessons and other resources. Here’s why.

Educators are teaching in perilous times. We face a white supremacist backlash — funded by billionaires — against the 2020 uprising for Black lives, when tens of millions built a multiracial movement against systemic racism.

Background reading and actions in response to Republican anti-history education laws.

Call on NAIS to immediately correct the record and issue an apology to Dr. Suzanne Barakat and Prof. Ruha Benjamin. 

Thanks to a generous collaboration with Dartmouth College historian Matthew Delmont, the Zinn Education Project offered 14,000+ copies of Delmont's book to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators, who shared a plan for using the text.

We, the undersigned educators, refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history and current events.

Educator Jesse Hagopian discussed his book, Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education. This class was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

HistorianMia Bay will discuss her book, Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, which explores racial restrictions on transportation and resistance to the injustice. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

In teaching about the wildfires in Los Angeles, include the role of incarcerated labor.

Not only are books being banned, but also the right to teach about racism and LGBTQI identity — essentially placing thousands more titles off limits. The official lists of banned books are a drop in the bucket.

The Zinn Education Project co-hosted a booth at the American Historical Association annual meeting in New York from January 4–6, 2025.

We invite you to use the power of your voice to protect teachers and ensure that our children learn the truth about history so that they can shape a more just future.

Wear your support for teaching banned books and history.

The Zinn Education Project is one of CREDO’s grant recipients for the month of January. This can make a huge difference. How much we receive depends on you. Your vote is critical and takes less than a minute. Cast your vote today.

As we fight the attacks on teaching and learning, it is critical that educators overcome isolation and ground ourselves in what we are fighting for. Our Teaching for Black Lives educator-led communities of study and reflection, launched in the fall of 2020, help provide that grounding.