The Campaign
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.
Through multiple opportunities â classes, study groups, workshops â educators are invited into 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.

Success to Date
The Teaching for Black Lives Campaign launched in the summer of 2020. Since that time, we have:
- Sponsored 228 teacher study groups in 38 states
- Hosted 40 Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online classes
- Offered free lessons for teachers to use in their classrooms
- Created and supported Teach Truth Days of Action across the country
- Supported thousands of teachers facing attacks in their schools and communities
- Produced and disseminated the first national report analyzing Kâ12 curriculum standards on Reconstruction
- Led dozens of curriculum-writing workshops
- Distributed more than 16,000 young adult people’s history books to classrooms
- Ensured classroom teachers had a voice in local and national media coverage of anti-truth laws
Our Impact
The Teaching for Black Lives campaign has provided support to thousands of teachers and students as they face an unprecedented combination of challenges: the pandemic, structural racism, police violence, and the attacks on teaching Black history with legislation in a growing number of states.
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We Need You
Your support can help make our schools sites of resistance, justice, joy, and liberation.
With your support, the Teaching for Black Lives campaign can ensure that educators are sustained in their pursuit of racial justice.
Campaign Partners
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