Opinion: Teachers Are Being Deprived of Chances to Learn Black History and Bring Lessons Back to the Classroom

As an English teacher in 2016, I spent a summer in the archives of the Brooklyn Historical Society learning about abolition and women’s suffrage efforts. I held original bills of sale of young Black girls from the 1840s in my hands, and I left inspired to teach high school juniors about the legacy of enslavement. […]