Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Class Scholars
Since March of 2020, we have hosted a series of free, online, interactive classes with people's historians of the Black Freedom Struggle Sign up for the classes here: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-black-freedom-struggle-classes This starter pack is a list of the scholars on Bluesky.
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@edgeofsports.bsky.social
Sports editor @thenation Edge of Sports TV at http://youtube.com/therealnews Host of the Edge of Sports Podcast. Co-host of WPFW's The Collision.
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown. rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. Spurs fan #COYS
@eji.org
We work to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial injustice. Led by Bryan Stevenson. Creators of @legacysites.eji.org
@clintsmithiii.bsky.social
Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
@profmsinha.bsky.social
President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn
@imaniperry.bsky.social
Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less.
@katemasur.bsky.social
Historian and whatnot. Recently published FREEDOM WAS IN SIGHT! A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF RECONSTRUCTION IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C. REGION, with illustrations by the remarkable Liz Clarke. See also katemasur.com.
@victorialaw.bsky.social
Freelance journalist & author. Latest book: CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration (Haymarket, 2024). https://linktr.ee/victorialaw
@profblmkelley.bsky.social
writer/historian/distinguished professor/bestselling author of Black Folk/director @UNCSouth / #StudyingSegregation/ Breast cancer survivor/ The Oracle
@kcarterjackson.bsky.social
Wife. Mom. Friend. Historian. Award Winning Author. Podcaster. Seeker of Joy. Refusing Daily.
@jessehagopian.bsky.social
Educator|Author: "TeachTruth" (haymarketbooks.org/books/2493-teach-truth), Co-editor “Black Lives Matter at School,” & TeachingForBlackLives.org | Co-editor, Rethinking Schools|Website: IamAnEducator.com | 4 booking: speakoutnow.org/speakers/jesse-hagopian
@hofrench.bsky.social
Author, most recently of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, journalist, professor, columnist at Foreign Policy. Coming soon, "The Second Emancipation." See here: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
@drashleydfarmer.bsky.social
Historian, Professor, Writer. Author. Next 📚: Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore (Pantheon, 25) ashleydfarmer.com
@mattdelmont.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor of History at Dartmouth & Author of "Half American: African Americans Fighting WWII at Home and Abroad" (Viking Books) bit.ly/3D9jTNk
@zentronix.bsky.social
Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America (Mariner) - September 2025 Edge of Reason Can't Stop Won't Stop • Who We Be • We Gon' Be Alright
@marthasjones.bsky.social
Historian | Writer | Lapsed Lawyer | Professor JHU | Director Hard Histories | The Trouble of Color (March 2025, Basic Books) | msjonz@jhu.edu
@africanacarr.bsky.social
2x Male HBCU Prof of Year. Howard U AfAm Studs & HU Sch of Law. Moving to #JailbreakTheBlackUniversity with #TheRenewedNormal in Knarrative.com , #Knubia and #TheBlackTable . The World is a Classroom!
@kidadaewilliams.com
I read, tell stories, mind my business, and write. BEBO (Block early, Block often) fan. I SAW DEATH COMING is now in paperback.
@jeannetheoharis.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College, Author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South
@zinnedproject.bsky.social
Zinn Ed Project: Teaching People’s History offers free classroom lessons, workshops, seminars, campaigns, teacher study groups, & more to teach outside the textbook. Coord. by non-profit orgs @rethinkingschools.bsky.social & @teachingchange.bsky.social