To counter FL Fascist Gov Ron DeSantis’ attack on schools (and therefore students and  their right to learn), I invited a guest who’s working hard pushing back  against the push to whitewash our history and to keep teaching our kids  a truthful, honest history from which they can actually learn.

Jesse Hagopian is above all else a teacher. An educator! He’s on hiatus from the  classroom, working to ensure that teachers are able to continue teaching  our children facts– from science to history and beyond, free from the  heavy authoritarian hand that Republicans favor these days.

From his website at iamaneducator.com,  we learn that Jesse is an editor for the social justice periodical Rethinking Schools, is the co-editor of the books, Black Lives Matter at School, Teaching for Black Lives, Teacher Unions and Social Justice, and is the editor of the book, More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing. Jesse serves as the Director of the Black Education Matters Student Activist Award, is an organizer with the Black Lives Matter at School movement, and is founding member of Social Equity Educators (SEE).  And if you liked the “Legalize Black History” hat Jesse is wearing in this interview, he’s got that merch for sale here, with proceeds going to supporting the youth winners of the Black Education Matters Student Activist Award, as well as supporting the writing of a forthcoming book about the movement to stop the banning of Black history.

But I invited him to join us to tell us about his work with the Zinn Education Project!  Hopefully you’re read or are otherwise familiar with Howard Zinn’s A Peoples History of the United States.