In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our hosts, Jesse Hagopian and Cierra Kaler-Jones speak to Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò about his book Reconsidering Reparations. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jessica Rucker speaks to Julius B. Fleming Jr. about the role of Black theater in the Black Freedom Struggle and the concept of “Black patience.” Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones and Rethinking Schools co-editor Jesse Hagopian speak to Heather McGhee about The Sum of Us: How Racism Hurts Everyone, the young readers’ edition of her bestselling book. Read about the event and find related reso…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our hosts educators Jesse Hagopian and T. J. Whitaker spoke to historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad about his book The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, which examines the idea of Black criminality in the making of modern urban America. R…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our hosts Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones and Rethinking Schools co-editor Jesse Hagopian speak to historian Michael Hines about his book, A Worthy Piece of Work: The Untold Story of Madeline Morgan and the Fight for Black History in Schools. Read about t…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian speaks to historian Blair L. M. Kelley about her book, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class. Read about the event and find related resources

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, educator Jessica Rucker speaks with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) veterans Courtland Cox, Jennifer Lawson, and Judy Richardson. They discussed the SNCC Legacy Project and lessons that can be learned from SNCC today. Read about the event and find relat…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian and Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones speak to Kimberlé Crenshaw, a brilliant scholar and writer on civil rights, critical race theory, Black feminist legal theory, intersectionality, race and racism, and t…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian speaks with career foreign correspondent and global affairs writer Howard W. French about his 2021 book, Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War. Read about the event a…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian speaks with Pulitzer Prize finalist Linda Villarosa about her 2022 book, Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation, where she exposes the persistent racism in the U.S health-care …

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Prentiss Charney Fellow Jessica Rucker speaks with historian Kidada E. Williams about her 2023 book, I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction. The book offers a breakthrough account of the much-debated Reconstruction period,…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian speaks with historian Jeanne Theoharis about Rosa Parks’ activism prior to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, her trip to the Highlander Folk School, and the decades she dedicated to challenging racism in the North. This session include…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian speaks with historian Dayo Gore about Black women radicals active in the revolutionary struggle during the Red Scare. They also discuss Gore’s book Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle. Read ab…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, historian Jeanne Theoharis speaks with historian Matt Delmont about his book, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad, which tells the stories of how Black people fought racism at home and abroad during World War II. T…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Zinn Education Project leadership team member Cierra Kaler-Jones speaks with author Ashley Farmer about the life of Queen Mother Audley Moore, an important proponent of Black Nationalist thought, reparations, and activism. In addition to discussing Farmer’s book on the …

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Zinn Education Project leadership team member Cierra Kaler-Jones speaks with historian Alaina Roberts about the Reconstruction-era connections between Black freedom and Native American citizenship in the context of westward expansion on Native land. They discuss Roberts…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our hosts, sports historian Dave Zirin and Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian spoke with several guest speakers about the life and legacy of Howard Zinn, whose 100th birthday was commemorated in August 2022. Guest speakers included Martín Espada, Kidada E. Williams, Myla Ka…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, historian Nancy Raquel Mirabal, speaks with historian Kelly Lytle Hernández about the magonistas, insurgents who challenged Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz and U.S. imperialism in the early 20th century. They discuss Hernández’s book, Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revo…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian speaks with historian Kidada E. Williams about the imaginative, defiant ways that Black people sought and enacted freedom throughout U.S. history. They discuss Williams’s podcast, Seizing Freedom, which brings to life voices that…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Rethinking Schools co-editor Jesse Hagopian speaks with historian Johanna Fernández about the history of the Young Lords, the Puerto Rican counterpart of the Black Panther Party. They discuss Fernández’s book, The Young Lords: A Radical History, which highlights the mul…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Rethinking Schools co-editor Jesse Hagopian speaks with journalist Vikki Law about the root causes and outcomes of mass incarceration. They discuss Law’s book, “Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration, an essential resource on master narrativ…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Zinn Education Project leadership team member Cierra Kaler-Jones speaks with historian Martha S. Jones about the role of Black women in the long and ongoing fight for voting rights. They discuss Jones’s book, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and I…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian, a high school teacher, speaks to Brooklyn College Professor of Political Science and author, Dr. Jeanne Theoharis, about her recent article, Martin Luther King Knew That Fighting Racism Meant Fighting Police Brutality. Theoharis speaks about the white-wa…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our hosts, educators Jesse Hagopian and Cierra Kaler-Jones, speak to assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Jarvis Givens, about his book, Fugitive Pedagogy: CG Woodson & the Art of Black Teaching. Givens discusses the central role of African American ed…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian, a high school teacher, speaks to The Nation sports editor and host of the Edge of Sports Podcast, Dave Zirin, about his book, The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World. Zirin talks in-depth about the “Kaepernick Effect” and the similaritie…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jessica Rucker, a high school teacher, speaks to Teach Reconstruction campaign advisor and Northwestern University history professor Kate Masur about her book, Until Justice be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction. Professor…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian, a high school teacher and Rethinking Schools editor, facilitates a conversation between authors Jeff Chang and Dave “Davey D” Cook on their new young adult version of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Hip-Hop History. Chang and Davey D catalogue the role of urban…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian speaks with Gerald Lenoir about lessons from the South African movement to overthrow apartheid. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, Zinn Education Project team member Cierra Kaler-Jones speaks with Clint Smith about his book How the Word Is Passed, an examination of how monuments and landmarks represent — and misrepresent — the central role of slavery in U.S. history and its legacy today. Read about the event…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian speaks with Garrett Felber and Stephen Wilson about the growth of the prison industrial complex and resistance movements. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, professor Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Tera W. Hunter about Black women’s fight for labor and voting rights. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, Education Anew Fellow Cierra Kaler-Jones speaks with Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross about their book, A Black Women’s History of the United States. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian speaks with SNCC veteran Judy Richardson and co-editors Jeanne Theoharis and Pamela Horowitz about Julian Bond and the Southern Civil Rights Movement. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian speaks with professor Jeanne Theoharis about the new young adult version of her book on Rosa Parks. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Teaching for Change board member Tiffany Mitchell Patterson speaks with historian Kidada E. Williams about the history of repression and resistance during Reconstruction with contemporary connections. They discuss Williams’s podcast, Seizing Freedom, which focuses on an…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Zinn Education Project leadership team member Cierra Kaler-Jones speaks with historian Charles M. Payne about voter suppression and white terrorism in the mid-20th century. They discuss Payne’s book, Teach Freedom: Education for Liberation in the African-American Tradit…

In this episode, our host, Adam Sanchez, a high school teacher and Rethinking Schools editor, interviews historian Manisha Sinha to address the interracial radical abolition movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. Sinha emphasizes the impact of Black abolitionists, particularly those who escaped enslavement — like Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubma…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian speaks with professor Jeanne Theoharis about the history of rebellions in the United States. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jessica Rucker, a D.C. high school teacher, interviews historian Greg Carr to challenge viewers to reconsider how they understand Reconstruction in the United States. He describes the history of Juneteenth, and what it means to truly honor the history of the holiday during th…

In this episode, our host, Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, an assistant professor of secondary social studies at West Virginia University, interviews historian Martha Jones of The John Hopkins University to deconstruct how we understand citizenship for Black Americans. Jones moves from before the Civil War through Reconstruction to the present, tacklin…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian speaks with professor Keisha N. Blain about the historical roots of police violence and the 2020 Rebellion. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian speaks with historian and longtime activist Barbara Ransby about Black feminist organizing from the 1950s to the 21st Century. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, our host, Cierra Kaler-Jones, an Education Anew Fellow with Teaching for Change through Communities for Just Schools Fund, interviews historian Robin D.G. Kelley to demystify the taboos and stereotypes about communism in the decades leading up to the modern Civil Rights Movement. Kelley proceeds to tell stories about Anne Braden, L…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian speaks with sports editor Dave Zirin about Black athletes and the Black Freedom Struggle. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian, a high school teacher and Rethinking Schools editor, introduces scholar-activist Mary Phillips and historian Robyn C. Spencer, who discuss how Black women transformed the Black Panther Party. Spencer and Phillips describe the role of Black women in the Black P…

In this episode, initially recorded on May Day, our host, Jesse Hagopian, a high school teacher and Rethinking Schools editor, interviews historian Jeanne Theoharis to address Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s positions on oppression in the North, police brutality, the Memphis sanitation workers, reparations, the Poor People’s Campaign, and more. Theoha…

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, high school teacher Jessica Rucker speaks with SNCC veterans Courtland Cox and Judy Richardson about the history of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian speaks with professor Jeanne Theoharis about the Civil Rights Movement in the North. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian speaks with professor Jeanne Theoharis about teenagers in the Civil Rights Movement. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian speaks with professor Jeanne Theoharis about her book, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Read about the event and find related resources.