Scholar Eve L. Ewing, in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian and Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones, will discuss her book, Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism, an examination of how the U.S. school system helps maintain racial inequality and social hierarchies.

“Rethinking Our Classrooms, Organizing for Better Schools” is the theme for the 18th Annual Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference to be held at Parkrose High School in Portland, Oregon. There will be speakers, workshops, a resources fair, and more. Registration coming soon

Historian Jeanne Theoharis will return to discuss her book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian. This class is part two to a March 2025 Teach the Black Freedom Struggle class with Theoharis where she discussed the book just prior to its release. Given the extent of […]

On Monday, November 10, 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 the Activists Who Fought Back, an examination of the civil rights struggle through its work against police violence — and a prehistory of both the Black Lives […]