Recent local events: Teaching for black lives Event in UW

Gather with editors of Teaching for Black Lives, Jesse Hagopian and Wayne Au, along with local youth, leaders from the Seattle Education Association Center for Race & Equity, and the Seattle Public Schools Ethnic Studies Program to kick-off Black Lives matter at School Week 2019. Speakers share the ways the book, their teaching, and their programs center and sustain Black Lives in our classrooms and communities.

A Handbook for all educators to fight racism. ___Washington Post

They purchase the book for distribution!

Seattle-based artist Macklemore and three-time NFL Pro Bowler Michael Bennett have teamed up to purchase and distribute copies of the new critically acclaimed book, Teaching for Black Lives to every middle and high school Social Studies and Language Arts teacher in the Seattle Public Schools

From left to right: Jesse Hagopian (co-editor of Teaching for Black Lives), Michael Bennett, Macklemore [Photo Credit: Ben Secord].

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John Muir Elementary teachers in Seattle will be wearing Black Lives Matter t-shirts at school on September 16th. The school is a K-5 school in the Seattle Public School district. “To be silent would be almost unforgivable, and I think we have been silent for almost too long. It is part of the oppression, the systemic oppression that continues on.”

A district spokesman says the school received a threat related to the Black Lives Matter shirts. A source says it was a bomb threat. The spokesman said Friday's event was meant to celebrate students of color and help narrow the opportunity gap.

“As a black man, a man of color, the conversation about who I am, what I’m about and what interests me is never really told from my perspective.”

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