A Campaign of the Zinn Education Project, coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change
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The Teaching for Black Lives campaign provides teachers support, resources, and encouragement to teach young people honestly about systemic racism and how to organize for justice.
Watch this 3-minute video on the campaign.
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Support for Educators
Through classes, study groups, workshops, and free curriculum and resources, educators can join a national network of teachers, school librarians, counselors, administrators, and school staff who are defying efforts to ban what students can learn in school by vowing to teach for Black lives.
Howard Barry
Advocate and Donate
We must support educators organizing to turn classrooms and schools into sites of resistance, justice, joy, and liberation, and to combat racism and anti-Blackness.
Racial justice educators are fighting back — and they need your help. Join us.
Our Movement is Growing
400
study groups across the country
3887
copies of the book given away
111767
downloads of Black history lessons
3795
teachers in study groups
5410
teachers took online classes
964200
students reached by teachers in study groups and online classes
Help us double the numbers!
Make a donation through the Zinn Education Project today, and indicate your contribution is for the “Teaching for Black Lives” campaign.
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Events & Announcements
Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups 2025–2027
June–September: The Zinn Education Project is accepting applications for Teaching for Black Lives educator study groups for the 2025–2027 school years. Apply today! Each year the Zinn Education Project hosts Teaching…
Read More How the Word Is Passed: Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America
Monday, August 25, 2025: Author and educator Clint Smith will discuss the new young readers edition of How the Word Is Passed: Remembering Slavery and How it Shaped America, which was…
Read More Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
Monday, September 22, 2025: Scholar Eve L. Ewing, in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian and Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones, will discuss her book, Original Sins: The…
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