Friends in Los Angeles: On Monday, Nov. 10 at UCLA: Jesse Hagopian @jessehagopian.bsky.social will be conversation with Robin D. G. Kelley about his @haymarketbooks.org title, “Teach Truth: The Struggle for an Antiracist Education.” luskincenter.history.ucla.edu/event/teach-...

My latest: “Real learning, as the renowned psychologist Lev Vygotsky showed, is a social process. It happens through dialogue, relationships, & shared meaning-making. AI can’t do that. It can’t sense when a student’s silence means confusion or when it means trauma.“ truthout.org/articles/reg...

This Thursday November 6!! Join us online at 6:30 EST for an urgent conversation on the Fight for Black History and Black Education with @jessehagopian.bsky.social, @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social, @barrygoldenberg.bsky.social, and Crystal Sanders. www.eventbrite.com/e/cbfs-the-f...

This poem is my response to the gluttons who cut #SNAP food benefits. “A SNAP Decision: Eat the Rich” #OhSnap #EatTheRich open.substack.com/pub/jessehag...

Black History Is for Everyone Check out this conversation between @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social and @jessehagopian.bsky.social, from the new issue of @rethinkingschools.bsky.social

👀 Just dropped my new poem, “Your Lying Eyes.” This one is for everyone who’s ever been told their truth was a lie. #Poetry #ResistFacsism open.substack.com/pub/jessehag...

So excited for this conversation on KING OF THE NORTH with the great @sifill.bsky.social and @jessehagopian.bsky.social on Monday at 7:00 EST. Join us!

I’m one of 20 million+ people in the U.S. living with #LongCOVID. This fight isn’t just personal—it’s part of a long struggle for health justice in a nation that’s never been healthy for all. My new @Truthout piece: 👉 truthout.org/articles/i-a... #DisabilityJustice #HealthEquity #PublicHealth

Really appreciate this perspective. "When leaders gut research or restrict vaccines, they’re not only abandoning long haulers — they’re putting the entire society at risk."

Palestine Will Live Forever

Thank you for saying that! Yes. One of my favorite moments in the day was watching one of my students volunteers listen to @jessehagopian.bsky.social’s keynote with wide, bright eyes & knowing it was the start of something…

I’m one of 20 million+ people in the U.S. living with #LongCOVID. This fight isn’t just personal—it’s part of a long struggle for health justice in a nation that’s never been healthy for all. My new @Truthout piece: 👉 truthout.org/articles/i-a... #DisabilityJustice #HealthEquity #PublicHealth

#tdih 1968 We all recognize iconic photo of Black Power salute by Tommie Smith & John Carlos at Olympics. But, what were their demands? What happened before & after? How did they organize? What was Peter Norman's role? #TeachOutsideTextbook Read ⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ol...

I'm so looking forward to this conversation on KING OF THE NORTH with the great @sifill.bsky.social with @zinnedproject.bsky.social & @jessehagopian.bsky.social on Monday October 27 at 7:00 EST. All are welcome to tune in: www.zinnedproject.org/news/king-of...

Now more than ever

Teach about impact of 1919 #ElaineMassacre (and so many more) on economic rights & the legacy today of Black dispossession (of land, right to organize, businesses, schools). #Reparations Article & lesson ⬇️ by Linda Christensen of @rethinkingschools.bsky.social www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-o...

We're hiring a Marketing Director! rethinkingschools.org/job-openings/

Who fears critical thinking? In my new @wordinblacknews.bsky.social article, I show how the @zinnedproject.bsky.social’s “Teach Truth on Constitution Day” campaign teaches which rights it doesn’t protect—& how the rights we have were won by struggle. ✊🏾 #TeachTruth wordinblack.com/2025/10/no-w...

What a joy! Thank you, Jesse! ✊🏽

10/28 at 7:30 PM | Super Bowl champions and authors Michael and Martellus Bennett join educator @jessehagopian.bsky.social for Black Thoughts: a conversation on race, justice, creativity, and liberation. 🎟️ Get tickets: buff.ly/h73fdO5

What an unforgettable evening at the Schomburg Center! ✨ Congratulations to Brian Jones on his brilliant new book #BlackHistoryIsForEveryone I was an honor to join Bettina Love and Brian to discuss the insights of his book!

As a vital resource for naming and historicizing this moment and strategizing our intervention, I'm thrilled to announce my new free interactive report: School Times for End Times: A Brief History of U.S. Christian Nationalist Activism and Public Education Please help to spread the word!

Yesterday we lost Assata Shakur— a giant in the history of the Black freedom struggle and movements for socialism. Standing in Oakland this summer at the Women of the Black Panther Party mural, I pointed to Assata Shakur’s words: “We have nothing to lose but our chains.” Rest in power. ✊🏾🖤

I think one of the biggest mistakes we’ve made in academia over the last few years was treating tenure and academic freedom as a guaranteed right and not a labor relation. Had more understood it as the latter perhaps we would have been better prepared to protect it

Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Des Moines largest public school district (DMPS), was apprehended on Friday morning by ICE. DHS claims that Roberts was arrested because he had “a final order of removal and no work authorization.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This lesson by Adam Sanchez and @jessehagopian.bsky.social includes Assata Shakur and many other members of the Black Panther Party. Students learn about the BPP's fight for decent housing, healthcare, education, and much more. #TeachOutsideTextbook www.zinnedproject.org/materials/bl...

Join us for class later today with Eve L. Ewing, author of "Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black & Native Children and the Construction of American Racism." Can't make it to class? Order the book. Beautifully written & a vital history of U.S. education. www.zinnedproject.org/news/origina...

Congratulations to RS editor @jessehagopian.bsky.social on being awarded the 2025 William Sloane Coffin Jr. Peacemaker Award alongside @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social. You continue to inspire us! ✊🏾

NYC! Black History is for Everyone! Join @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social for a book launch and conversation with Bettina Love and @jessehagopian.bsky.social next week at the Schomburg Center Tuesday, September 30th at 6:30 pm ET Free with RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/between-th...

The Mariners could clinch the playoffs tonight—ima be at the game with my kids and I’m glad they are planning on it!

Labor unions doing the work the UC should be doing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

LIVE NOW! Pedagogies for Justice Join Haymarket Books and Parceo for a discussion on how our pedagogies can ground our organizing in collective struggles for justice. Stream here:

Check out our new lesson by Jesse Hagopian. Students explore examples of laws passed to suppress Black education in the wake of major victories for the Black Freedom Struggle, highlighting the historical context & motivations behind these legislative efforts. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/le...

My new essay for @truthout.org: Trump wants slavery buried — without even a headstone to mark that it existed. My family went South this summer to unearth this history & learn how to resist fascism. #TeachTruth truthout.org/articles/trump-wants-to-bury-slavery-my-family-went-south-to-unearth-it/

A Gaza aid flotilla’s main boat was hit by an explosive while docked in Tunisia; organizers claim it was a drone attack, but authorities blame an onboard accident. Greta Thunberg had been on the boat earlier—all crew are safe.

Honored to receive the 2025 William Sloane Coffin, Jr. Peacemaker Award alongside Jamaal Bowman. 🕊️✊🏾 Past winners include Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, & LaDonna Brave Bull Allard. Excited to meet youth honorees Peace Action Le Moyne & Nabiha Subzwari. NYC fam—see you Sept 29! tinyurl.com/WSCA25

Definitely one for the top of the TBR list - [ #fascism #racism #Trump #GOP #Republican #MAGA #USA #reading #history #education ]

Once again calling for the MLBPA to designate this day as Curt Flood Day. And a shout-out to all unions, including my local CUPE. Workers unite.

✊🏾🌹 Honored to have an essay in the new book, “A User’s Guide to DSA: 5 Debates That Define the Democratic Socialists.” I argue that the struggle for socialism must center Black liberation—drawing on CLR James, the Combahee River Collective, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. #DSA #BlackLiberation

This is not only how we defeat Trump’s racist plan for schooling, but also his whole fascist agend. rethinkingschools.org/articles/tru...

✨ New poem just dropped ✨ I wrote “The Moral Famine” about the starvation of morality in our times—when truth, compassion, and justice are rationed while oppression feasts. #FeedGaza #FreePalestine You can read it here: open.substack.com/pub/jessehag...

So this happened in New York City. Just sharing information, like sports and weather.

Vet. Knocked down from behind. Loses his glasses. Whole world is watching. Hope they are proud.

Trump’s sending in national guard to cities is part of the rise of fascism. But did you know, almost half of schools require the teacher to lie to students about systemic racism? Criminalizing the truth is a prerequisite of authoritarian rule. #TeachTruth indypendent.org/2025/01/when...

My family is filming a documentary about discovering where our ancestors were enslaved and our long struggle for freedom. We just got back from Mississippi and New Orleans and this is what we learned. open.substack.com/pub/jessehag...

Check out young readers' "Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Hip-Hop History" by Jeff Chang @zentronix.bsky.social & Davey D Cook @mrdaveyd.bsky.social. Intro by DJ Kool Herc. Banned in Dept of Defense schools. Also see our class with authors & @jessehagopian.bsky.social & related teaching resources. ⬇️

We can’t fight what we refuse to name. Fascism grows in the shadows of silence, censorship, and the violence of organized forgetting. Grateful to the @zinnedproject.bsky.social for continuing to arm educators and students with the tools to understand—and defeat—fascism. #TeachTruth

This was Vin Scully's call of Henry Aaron's 715th home run. Tonight Major League Baseball cut off the first sentence, starting it with the "What a marvelous moment" part because they don't want to anger the white supremacists who run our country and of whom Rob Manfred is an ardent supporter.

"[W]hat we're calling AI in schools today doesn't think, doesn't reason, doesn't understand. It guesses. It copies. It manipulates syntax and patterns based on probability, not meaning. ... In short, [AI] mimics intelligence. But mimicry is not wisdom. It is not care. It is not pedagogy."

Wonderful new piece in @truthout.org on AI in schools by my friend @jessehagopian.bsky.social.