History

As book bans and censorship spread, leaders must decide: protect comfort or defend truth? History shows progress comes from courage in education.

What do Ken Burns, Joe Rogan, and great teachers have in common? A belief that knowledge matters—and that students need more than infotainment to thrive.

Explore how Ryan Coogler’s Sinners can be used as a powerful teaching tool to illuminate Black history, culture, resistance, and imagination through the lens of LaGarrett King’s 8 Black Historical Consciousness Principles.

As educators, we must celebrate and emulate the powerful and transformative work and lives of history’s Hamers, Parks, and Bakers.

Black educators challenge systems of injustice. In a world built on such systems, challenging the systems invites scrutiny, backlash, and demonization.

The history of Black educators shows, clear and plain, that they have shaped the very definition of what it means to be a great teacher.

Our Balkanized approach of names, dates, and places unanchored in time and devoid of context, ignores the interconnected nature of history and the powerful “stickiness” of stories.