“Black Panther Party history holds vital lessons for today’s movement to confront racism & police violence, yet textbooks misrepresent or minimize the significance of Black Panthers.” — Adam Sanchez & @jessehagopian.bsky.social, “What We Don’t Learn About the Black Panther Party but Should” More ⬇️

What We Don’t Learn About the Black Panther Party — but Should

By Adam Sanchez and Jesse Hagopian Black Panther Party history holds vital lessons for today’s movement to confront racism and police violence, yet textbooks either misrepresent or minimize the…

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10/15: In celebration of 60th anniv. of Black Panther Party’s founding, BLM @ School is hosting a virtual panel discussion w/ Aaron Dixon, @jessehagopian.bsky.social, & more. Learn significance of BPP & see how their legacy of resistance is just as pertinent today. More: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Yes, and @jessehagopian.bsky.social includes David Walker's Appeal in his lesson that explores 11 key scenarios with laws passed to suppress Black education in the wake of major victories/actions (like the Appeal) for the Black Freedom Struggle -- see below. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/le...

Legalize Black Education: The Long Fight for the Right to Learn

Teaching Activity. By Jesse Hagopian. 2025. 40 pages. This lesson explores major examples of laws passed to suppress Black education in the wake of major victories for the Black Freedom Struggle, high...

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Thank you to @ncte.org for giving my book “Teach Truth” the 2026 David H. Russell award! This is a victory for my great-great grandma Laura Lenoir who was enslaved and forbidden to learn to read or write. open.substack.com/pub/jessehag...

Teach Truth Wins the 2026 David H. Russell Award

Praised for its “extraordinary timeliness” and “extremely well-written and engaging accessibility,” the book “keeps alive our collective hope in combatting racism.”

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The New York City Department of Education’s Hidden Voices project has created an impressive social studies curriculum that “delves into the perspectives, experiences, and impact that Americans with disabilities have had—and continue to have—on United States history.”

Hidden Voices: Americans with Disabilities in United States History | WeTeachNYC

The Hidden Voices project was initiated to help students learn about and honor the innumerable people, often “hidden” from the traditional historical record, who have shaped and continue to shape our ...

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"Repression does not produce only silence & resignation. Our survey is also filled with educators resisting — and their responses offer an important clue about what makes resistance possible." -- @jessehagopian.bsky.social in article about ZEP study via @truthout.org ⬇️ truthout.org/articles/aut...

Authoritarianism Leads Teachers to Self-Censor. Solidarity Lets Us Teach Truth.

A Zinn Education Project survey reveals how collective struggle helps educators resist political intimidation.

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We’re thrilled to announce that @jessehagopian.bsky.social, campaign director at ZEP & editor at @rethinkingschools.bsky.social, has won the David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English for his book “Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education”! Learn more: ⬇️

Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education

Book — Non-fiction. By Jesse Hagopian. 2025. 302 pages. A call to defend honest education for our students, showing how we can reclaim suppressed history by creating beloved classroom communities and ...

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✨❤️ I’m honored that “Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education” has won the 2026 NCTE David H. Russell Award! NCTE is the leading org representing English/language arts teachers and literacy educators across the country. #NCTE #TeachTruth

Short notice (we just got it) but in case you're available today: "Teaching Antifascist History in K-12 Today" by Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives w/ @rethinkingschools.bsky.social editor / @zinnedproject.bsky.social campaign director @jessehagopian.bsky.social ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/teaching-a...

Teaching Antifascist History in K-12 Today

ALBA Roundtable: Teaching Anti-Fascist History

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On Democracy Now!, I floated a new theory: AI companies really have unleashed a killer monster that has slipped their control. But plot twist - the monster is human. And it's the President of the United States. @astra.bsky.social @democracynow.org

Must read from Dave Zirin! Dave has been covering rapacious billionaire Robert Kraft for years & has important insight into his attack on Macklemore for saying “ #FreePalestine” Macklemore is a true artist: using his creativity to speak against injustice. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Justice for Macklemore

The rapper has been dumped from Ed Sheeran’s tour for saying “free Palestine.” That’s a disgrace.

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For more on Paul Robeson, join our 10/26 Teach the Black Freedom Struggle class "Robeson, Robinson, and Resistance: Athletes, Artists, and the Struggle for Liberation" with @howardbryantbooks.bsky.social in conversation w/ @jessehagopian.bsky.social More ⬇️ 2/2 www.zinnedproject.org/news/robeson...

Robeson, Robinson, and Resistance: Athletes, Artists, and the Struggle for Liberation

Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian will be in conversation with Howard Bryant about his book Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America. This class is part of the Zinn Educatio...

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Happy #PublicationDay to George Theoharis & John Rogers! 🏫 EDUCATING IN DANGEROUS TIMES is a compilation of leading education scholars on reenvisioning & creating equitable, inclusive & democratic public schools. “Read this book—and then join the resistance.” — @jessehagopian.bsky.social

"This year marks not only 500 years since the first Africans were stolen from their continent and trafficked to land that would become the United States, but also the beginning of resistance to African enslavement on North American soil." #SouthCarolina #USA #Spain #Slavery

500-Year-Old Slave Revolt of 1526 Redefines Freedom as US Turns 250

Before 1776 or 1619, enslaved Africans seized freedom in 1526 on land that would become the United States.

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The cockroaches have come together. The rest of us must decide whether we will keep competing for our assigned places in an unjust world—or join them in creating one in which every child has the chance to flourish, writes @jessehagopian.bsky.social.

India’s Cockroach Movement Shows How to Fight Autocracy and the Testocracy

How a leaked high-stakes exam exposed capitalism’s broken promise—and why standardized testing keeps igniting struggle.

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Happy Friday! Seattle's finally decided to make universal school meals a reality. It shouldn't have been this much of a fight. This week, the amazing @jessehagopian.bsky.social talks with us about fighting for educational justice, in Seattle and everywhere. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Ep 61: Teach Truth and Feed the Damn Kids with Jesse Hagopian

Podcast Episode · In the Meanwhile · July 24 · 1h 4m

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Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵

New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed

A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...

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“Years in public school classrooms have taught me something policymakers sometimes overlook: hunger doesn’t follow the neat lines that eligibility rules try to draw.” Universal school meals now! Thank you @jessehagopian.bsky.social for this www.thestranger.com/guest-editor...

Guest Rant: Seattle Can't Afford Not to Feed Every Child - The Stranger

Every August, before I thought about lesson plans, I went shopping for snacks. When I taught elementary school in a Washington, DC neighborhood shaped by generations of segregation and concentrated po...

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Tomorrow! July 15 @ 4pm, join ‘The Other 250: America from Below’ w/ @rebeccanagle.bsky.social, @jessehagopian.bsky.social, & others. The virtual roundtable will explore the contested terrain of the U.S. semiquincentennial & the counter-histories that confront the authoritarianism of the present.

Rebecca Nagle@rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Next Wednesday, I'm joining The Natural History Museum's virtual roundtable "The Other 250: America from Below" with Jesse Hagopian, Derek Alderman, and Beka Economopoulos. Register today → zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Cracking open history to reveal new new futures waiting for us, Hagopian offers searing clarity to today's convoluted spectacle. So. Damn. Good.

Jesse Hagopian@jessehagopian.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Yes, Trump’s UFC cage fight for America’s 250th birthday was grotesque. But the rising fascism of our time is not a detour from the nation’s founding ideals. My new piece for @truthout. truthout.org/articles/tru... #Decolonize1776 #America250 #TeachTruth #BlackHistory

"Decolonizing 1776 requires more than rethinking the past; it requires reclaiming our capacity to imagine a different future." -- @jessehagopian.bsky.social in "Trump’s UFC Cage Fight Is an Apt Metaphor for a Nation Built on Colonial Violence" via @truthout.org Here: truthout.org/articles/tru...

Yes, Trump’s UFC cage fight for America’s 250th birthday was grotesque. But the rising fascism of our time is not a detour from the nation’s founding ideals. My new piece for @truthout. truthout.org/articles/tru... #Decolonize1776 #America250 #TeachTruth #BlackHistory

Trump’s UFC Cage Fight Is an Apt Metaphor for a Nation Built on Colonial Violence

The White House’s Freedom 250 spectacle grotesquely exposed the settler-colonial legacy of 1776.

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#tdih 1969 Stonewall Uprising in NYC. Police attack patrons at gay bar who resist. Often called spark that launched the gay rights mov't, the history is longer. See NY Historical Society & Throughline ⬇️ Defend right to teach this history. Poster via @justseeds.bsky.social of Sylvia Ray Rivera

June 28, 1969: Stonewall Riots

Police arrived at the Stonewall Inn and arrested anyone found to be cross-dressing, resulting in mayhem and what are now referred to as the Stonewall Riots. This was a milestone in a long history of L...

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Teach the Black Freedom Struggle ’26–’27 classes are here! #BacktoSchool🧵 Sept. 28: 100 Years of HS Student Organizing @jessehagopian.bsky.social joins historians @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social & Jon N. Hale to discuss student organizing & state repression. www.zinnedproject.org/news/one-hun...

One Hundred Years of High School Student Organizing

Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian will be in conversation with historians Aaron G. Fountain Jr. and Jon N. Hale about student organizing and state repression. This class is part of the Zinn Edu...

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Don't miss tonight @ 7pm ET: Join Educators For Strong Schools: Momentum From May Day. Be part of the movement. Learn about historic May Day actions & building strong unions for the common good Featuring @jessehagopian.bsky.social & Cierra Kaler-Jones of @rethinkingschools.bsky.social Register ⬇️

Educators For Strong Schools: Momentum From May Day · Mobilize

**Hear lessons from educators in NC and WI building from their build up to the historic actions on May Day 2026 shutting down schools for massive May Day rallies and how we can build strong unions wor...

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THIS is why we produced a Climate Crisis Timeline to use in classrooms. Every young person should be able to spot the misinformation/spin in the Forbes headline. The rewrite by @katharinehayhoe.com is a powerful and accurate correction. #TeachTruth www.zinnedproject.org/news/climate...

Climate Crisis Timeline

We offer a new timeline of the climate crisis that traces its roots from European colonial expansion and racial capitalism to present-day fossil fuel industry and government projects that exploit and ...

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Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · 5mo ago

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Here’s my application for $30 million from Trump’s new slush fund: “If you think the January 6 defendants have a compelling claim for compensation due to governmental mistreatment, wait until you hear about this historical episode called slavery.” www.commondreams.org/opinion/appl...

My Application for $30 Million From Trump’s $1.8 Billion Slush Fund | Common Dreams

A formal letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, faithfully submitted.

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The clips I saw from this event were truly wild. I’m glad @jessehagopian.bsky.social took the time to break down the madness of it all

Truthout@truthout.org · 5mo ago

Trump’s lesson to children was to fear difference, obey power, and treat vulnerable people as threats.