Black Teachers

A high school teacher from Maryland has earned the Varkey Foundation’s $1 million Global Teacher Prize, selected from more than 8,000 nominations of educators from 121 countries worldwide.

Classes at Kindezi at Gideons Elementary School in Atlanta, Georgia started back up last week, and one teacher wanted her students to start their school year on a positive and encouraging note.

School desegregation was made possible after the landmark “Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka” in 1954, ending years of divisive and racist polices against Black schoolchildren. While the law was to be observed nationally, resistance to the change was rampant in the South resulting in a major case that developed in the city of […]

The namesake of Baltimore, Maryland’s Coppin State University, Fanny Jackson Coppin, was a woman of exceptional fortitude and ambition. Born into slavery, Coppin was the first Black woman to become a school principal and was driven by a need to spread education to newly freed slaves. Fanny Marion Jackson was born in October 1837 in […]

Nancy L. Dupree was a schoolteacher in Rochester, New York who came to the North with hopes of teaching America’s future. In her short time as a teacher, Ms. Dupree injected radical ideas into her daily curriculum which culminated in the release of a rare album featuring her students singing about the Black Power Movement. […]

Chicago's Dwayne Reed really wanted his students to be excited to start the new school year.

  This week, an American ritual will repeat itself. Something that within the past century has morphed into a rite of passage for armies of…

There’s a growing racial gap between students and their teachers. On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education…