Book — Non-fiction. By David Lester and Marcus Rediker, and edited by Paul Buhle. 2026. 136 pages.
graphic history of how enslaved Africans on board the Amistad rebelled and captured the slave ship in 1839, challenging a whitewashed version of history and putting the Africans back at the center of their own freedom story.
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Teaching Activity. By Tiferet Ani and Mimi Eisen. 2026. 27 pages.
In this mixer lesson, students surface choices and outcomes navigated by an array of Black and Indigenous people in the American Revolution to examine what freedom meant to those excluded from it at the U.S. founding.
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The Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic) was the violent and systemic expulsion of nearly 75 percent of all Palestinians from their homes and homeland by Zionist militias and the new Israeli army in the years surrounding the establishmen of Israel in May 1948.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Gautham Rao. 2026. 320 pages.
Uncovers how slaveholders created their own white supremacist police and government to deny Black people rights, power, and humanity.
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Picture book. By Livia Blackburne, with illustrations by Nicole Xu. 2025. 40 pages.
Tells the story of the 1871 Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre in which nearly 20 Chinese men were killed, their dreams turned to ashes.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Howard Bryant. 2026. 320 pages.
Highlighting the lives of Paul Robeson and Jackie Robinson, this book tells the story of sports and fame, Black life in the United States, and the promise of integration through the Cold War lens of two transformative events.
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Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian will be in conversation with Howard Bryant about his book Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America. This class is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.
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Mary Church Terrell and three friends were refused service at Thompson’s, a popular Washington, D.C. restaurant, which ultimately led to a 1953 Supreme Court ruling against segregation in D.C. restaurants.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Molly Crabapple. 2026. 480 pages.
The story of the Jewish Labor Bund, a secular, socialist, and uncompromisingly anti-Zionist organization that fought for dignity and equality, not in an imagined homeland in Palestine but “here where we live.”
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With the help of dedicated comrades, Assata Shakur escaped from prison and her liberation continues to be an inspiration for people and movements around the world.
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George Jackson’s killing at San Quentin State Prison was a galvanizing moment for organizers inside and outside of prisons, from the Attica Uprising that began just weeks later to the commemoration of Black August to honor his resistance along with that of other Black freedom fighters and political prisoners.
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