It is urgent that educators of conscience commit ourselves to equipping our students to recognize the breadth of the climate emergency, to probe its social and economic causes, and to come to see themselves as activists for a just society and a stable climate.

Since April, 13,000 copies of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, the young readers’ edition of a book by acclaimed historian Jeanne Theoharis, adapted by award-winning YA author Brandy Colbert, have been shipped to teachers requesting copies to pair with their history or language arts curriculum.

Author Michelle Coles donated 52 signed copies of her acclaimed book for young people, Black Was the Ink, in support of our Teach Truth campaign.

We need to expose the right's agenda and be visible in our defense of teaching people's history. Don't let the right control the narrative. We ask EVERYONE (including YOU) reading this news post to participate in the #TeachTruth Days of Action.

Teachers and allies across the country pledged to teach truth on June 11 and 12, 2022. They made their pledges at historic sites to provide examples of the history that teachers would be required to lie about or omit if the GOP anti-history bills become law.

We invite educators, students, parents, and community members to rally across the country and pledge to #TeachTruth on June 11 and 12, 2022.

The Zinn Education Project is excited to announce another round of Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups, for the 2022–2023 school year.

Here are some of the sites that are hosting #TeachTruth Days of Action on June 11 and 12, 2022.

Teachers are invited to make public their pledge to #TeachTruth at historic sites throughout the year.

Educators and allies are pledging to teach truth in actions at historic sites across the country on June 11-12, 2022 and all summer long. Here are nine ways to participate.

The year 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of Howard Zinn’s birth on August 24, 1922, in Brooklyn. Although Howard died in 2010, his work continues to inform and inspire educators around the world.

We feature lessons, articles, and other resources to teach about the Tulsa Massacre and the ongoing struggle against institutionalized racism.

On this Memorial Day weekend, we feature two articles: one about the early origins of the holiday, led by African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina after the Civil War, and the second by Howard Zinn urging us to "destroy the weapons of death that . . . threaten our children and grandchildren."

The upcoming school board elections require our urgent attention.

As this country grows more dangerous for women, poor people, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, workers, and communities of color, so must our resolve and determination to #TeachTruth. Here are some articles and resources we’re turning to for insight and inspiration.

On May 9, the Zinn Education Project hosted author Kidada E. Williams in conversation with Jesse Hagopian about the imaginative, defiant ways that Black people sought and enacted freedom throughout U.S. history. This history is highlighted in her podcast Seizing Freedom, which focuses on and brings to life voices that have been muted time and time again. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

This International Workers’ Day — May 1st — comes in the midst of union victories at Amazon and Starbucks — and ever increasing challenges for frontline workers and teachers in the face of the ongoing pandemic.

On Monday, April 25, 2022, historian Johanna Fernández spoke about the history of the Young Lords, the Puerto Rican counterpart of the Black Panther Party. This session was part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

This year, Earth Day arrives with crisis layered upon crisis. The emergency of climate chaos frames everything.

In New York in the late 1960s, students in the Young Lords and the Black Panther Party were considered such a threat to the establishment that an association of high school principals issued a secret memo about “limits of permissible dissent.”

Pledge to teach climate justice.

Invitation to a panel with high school student organizers from the Mid-Atlantic to the Midwest, from the Northeast to the Deep South to share their struggles and discuss their strategies for resistance.

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