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Florida Rejects Black History AP Curriculum, Saying It “Lacks Educational Value”
The rejection of the proposed class is "another racist act that limits education for students," one critic noted.
From SNCC to Black Lives Matter: Longtime Activists Discuss Black Liberation
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Michael Simmons and Dan Berger discuss how the struggle for justice is a lifetime commitment.
Afropessimism Forces Us to Rethink Our Most Basic Assumptions About Society
“Afropessimism has one basic object of study … a diagnosis of Black suffering,” says theorist Frank B. Wilderson III.
Whistleblower Warns Development Threatens Louisiana’s Sacred Black History Sites
Plans to build a $400 million grain elevator would disrupt Black burial grounds and educational sites about slavery.
The GOP Is Attacking LGBTQ Rights in Schools. These Students Are Fighting Back.
Anti-racist and LGBTQ youth are organizing in school to resist the onslaught of Republican attempts to silence them.
Indiana School Allows Parents to Opt Students Out of Black History Month Lessons
The school district said it's examining the matter, assuring parents that it's dedicated to "teaching about the facts."
Liberal Anti-Racism Is Fixated on Symbolic Gestures. We Need Concrete Action.
Framing slavery as "original sin" has led liberal anti-racism into a dead end of inaction.
Bob Moses Embodied Collective Struggle for Black Freedom and Human Liberation
An educator, Moses also took action against war, imperialism and white supremacy. Let’s carry on his tradition.
Robin D.G. Kelley: The Tulsa Race Massacre Went Way Beyond “Black Wall Street”
This history has never been “unknown.” U.S. society actively refuses to acknowledge state-sanctioned racist violence.
The Capitol Siege Was White Supremacy in Action. Trial Evidence Confirms That.
The violent storming of the Capitol was in no way a “revolution” -- it was the brazen reemergence of white supremacy.