Black Lives Matter at School is an essential resource for
all those seeking to build an antiracist school system."
—Ibram
X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times
Bestselling Author
Black
Lives Matter at School succinctly generalizes lessons from
successful challenges to institutional racism that have been won
through the Black Lives Matter at School movement. This book will
inspire many more educators and activists to join the Black Lives
Matter at School movement at a moment when this antiracist work in
our schools could not be more urgent and critical to education
justice.
Contributors
include Opal Tometi, who wrote a moving foreword, Bettina Love who
shares a powerful chapter on abolitionist teaching, Brian Jones who
centers Black Lives Matter at School in the historical context
of the ongoing struggle for racial justice in education and prominent
teacher union leaders from Chicago to Los Angeles and beyond who
discuss the importance of anti-racist struggle in education unions.
The book includes essays, interviews, poems, resolutions, and more
from educators, students and parents around the country who have been
building Black Lives Matter at School on the ground.