Connect King’s ideas about kindness, fairness, and peaceful change to students’ own classroom community and daily experiences.
Explore identity, heritage, and family history as an entry point to personal connections with Black History and cultural storytelling.
Choose one person to research and use this lesson mini to enhance student analytical and writing skills.
Turn your classroom into an interactive exhibit highlighting Black voices, art, and achievements through multimedia stations with multi-dimensional Black experiences.
Challenge students to distill big ideas into powerful, poetic statements—mirroring the storytelling traditions that run deep in Black culture to foster synthesis, emotion, and voice.
Trace the relationships among historical forces—enslavement, abolition, Jim Crow laws, migration, and civil rights movements—to build analytical thinking about how systemic racism and resistance have evolved over time.
Looking for ready-to-use tools to spark classroom discussion? These curated resources—videos, e-books, blogs, and quizzes—make it simple to highlight the lives of Black leaders, thinkers, and innovators in U.S. history.
Biographies can transform abstract concepts into compelling narratives of courage, and innovation. Get resources (and a quiz!) that simplify studying the stories of celebrated icons and unsung heroes.
Take your learning beyond the classroom with BlackPast’s extensive list of museums and education centers that celebrate Black History across the country.
Read about how a Black paramedic training program in 1970s Pittsburgh set the standards for modern emergency response in the United States.
Language is the culmination of all the people who came before us—how they expressed themselves, interacted, treated others, and were treated. Watch this video to discover the history and evolution of the AAE language.
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