Square banner with text: The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We're Told About Crime, An interview with Khalil Gibran Muhammad. Zinn Education Project Teach the Black Freedom Struggle class. Also includes a photo of Dr. Muhammad and his book cover.

Lies We’re Told About Crime

As part of our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle series, historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad joined educators Jesse Hagopian and T. J. Whitaker to discuss his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America.
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Book Bans Threaten Public Education

In 2024, 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.
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The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime

Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad joined educators Jesse Hagopian and T. J. Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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#TeachTruth Syllabus

We offer this #TeachTruthSyllabus as a gesture of defiance and education. The Right would be happy to keep the conversation at the level of obfuscation, divorced from reality and history. We, on the other hand, want to talk about the truth — the truth about our past and present, the truth about our classrooms and curricula.
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Teaching Media Literacy on Palestine-Israel

Journalist and author Norman Solomon joined Rethinking Schools editor and high school teacher Jesse Hagopian to discuss how Solomon’s book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, relates to coverage of current events in Palestine-Israel, and strategies for teaching media literacy.
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Climate Emergency: Media Silence Compounds the Risk

This year the Earth shattered climate records, and the entanglement of militarism and fossil fuels reveals new atrocities every day. However, Hurricane Otis and other disasters that signal climate emergency receive little to no mainstream media coverage and context.
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