Black History Month Resources: Black History Month

The resources in this edition of The Moment will equip you with relevant teaching tools and suggestions for how to give this critical history the time, attention and depth it deserves.

Talking about race, although hard, is necessary. We are here to provide tools and guidance to empower your journey and inspire conversation.

Black girls in Vermont schools are 5 times more likely to be arrested then their white counterparts.

Noire Histoir features Black history facts, literature, and motivational stories from across the Black diaspora. Join Natasha McEachron as she celebrates Black pride, excellence, and power all 366 days of the year.

The BBC World Service presents a special edition of its Witness program, with incredible, first-person interviews about the African-American experience. Travel back to an iconic photograph from the civil rights campaign with Gloria Richardson. Hear the struggle for fair pay from Doug Williams, the first African American quarterback to play in the Superbowl. And Congresswoman Barbara Lee reflects on the moral stand she took in 2001 against the open-ended Global War on Terror. Witness presents stories that are inspiring, harrowing, and richly told.

“The Atlantic’s revisiting of Hurricane Katrina is a genuinely illuminating piece that, in many ways, can better prepare us for the current context. It doesn’t just provide a guide to the likely struggles, inequities, and deep dysfunctions that will come once we get over the hump with this pandemic; more immediately, it’s also a key that can help process the nature of the crisis we’re currently living in.” - Variety