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Daily News Lesson July 22 2025

A Brief But Spectacular take on understanding the past

Learn more about African American history and how it's taught in schools

Daily News Lesson July 18 2022

How this Phoenix dance troupe uses music to connect to performers' African roots -- and each other

PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs brings you another video from their summer academy.

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Lesson Plan February 02 2022

Lesson plan: Explore art and movement inspired by Jacob Lawrence's Migration series

Engage in a "close reading" of a timeless Jacob Lawrence painting through art-making, observation and analysis

Daily News Lesson May 07 2020

Pulitzer Prize winners' Ida B. Wells and 1619 Project's Nikole Hannah-Jones

In this NewsHour EXTRA lesson plan, learn about The 1619 Project and Pulitzer Prize winners Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ida B. Wells (1862-1931).

Daily Video February 18 2019

At George Washington's Mount Vernon, remembering the enslaved people who built America

Presidents Day is observed on George Washington's birthday, Feb. 18. Follow a tour guide at Washington's Mount Vernon estate, who is also a distant relation of an enslaved person at the former plantation, who offers his perspective about American history, slavery and the founding fathers.

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Illustrations by Annamaria Ward

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