A Campaign of the Zinn Education Project, coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change
Join 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.
Watch this 3-minute video on the campaign.
Watch the Video
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
450
study groups across the country
4578
copies of the book given away
130,972
downloads of Black history lessons
6052
teachers in study groups
5410
teachers took online classes
1038100
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
October–November: 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 King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South
Monday, October 27, 2025: Historian Jeanne Theoharis will return to discuss her book, King of the North, with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian. This class is part two to a…
Read More Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back
Monday, November 10, 2025: Scholar Joshua Clark Davis, in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian, will discuss his new book Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and…
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