February Freedom School Resource

When we reject the kind of education that teaches us to hate ourselves or our fellow community members, we reclaim the power to define our worth, our history, and our future. We move beyond narratives designed to diminish us and instead embrace an education that affirms our humanity, our brilliance, and our collective strength. Fannie Lou Hamer reminds us why this courage is essential—because silence and submission to oppressive knowledge systems keep us bound, while truth-telling and self-determination set us free.

March Freedom School Resource

In this thought-provoking video, we explore the transformative power of blockchain technology in the fight for racial justice. Grounded in the equityXdesign framework and inspired by immersive equity principles, this video highlights how blockchain can disrupt traditional power structures and create new systems of inclusion, transparency, and economic empowerment.

Spring/Summer Freedom School Resource

W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America, published in 1935, is a groundbreaking historical work that reinterprets the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) through the lens of Black agency and labor. Du Bois challenges the dominant white-supremacist narrative of Reconstruction as a failure caused by the alleged incompetence of freed Black people. Instead, he reframes the period as a bold, though ultimately sabotaged, experiment in interracial democracy and economic justice.

Central to Du Bois’s analysis is the role of Black labor, particularly how formerly enslaved people not only fought for their freedom but also envisioned and helped build a more equitable South through education, political participation, and coalition-building. He introduces the concept of the "general strike," where enslaved people withdrew their labor during the Civil War, effectively crippling the Confederate economy.

Du Bois also critiques the "propaganda of history"—the ways historians have erased or distorted Black contributions and framed Reconstruction as inherently flawed. He argues that the collapse of Reconstruction was not due to Black failure but to the violent resistance of white elites and the federal government’s eventual retreat from racial justice.