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Students read historical and contemporary texts. They analyze how the authors reconcile the ideals in the founding documents with slavery, and how they use rhetorical devices to strengthen arguments.

Kensington Health Sciences Humanities Team

Students explore the methodical progression that the United States took from the period of Reconstruction to the current crisis of mass incarceration.

The Racial Justice Organizing Committee

Students will explore resources about the wealth theft from Black Americans that has repeatedly occurred from 1619 to the present in order to research and propose a comprehensive solution.

The Racial Justice Organizing Committee

Kristian Ogungbemi is currently the lead teacher for the Global Leadership Program at Kensington Health Sciences Academy in Philadelphia, PA. Global Leadership is a three year major that focuses on...

Students use rhetorical analysis skills to reflect on the media backlash to The 1619 Project and connect political media rhetoric to current anti-critical race theory (CRT) legislation.

Kensington Health Sciences Humanities Team

Students create artistic memorials honoring enslaved Africans after exploring the origins and development of the Atlantic Slave War, forms of control used by enslavers, and forms of Black resistance.

African-American History at Mastery Charter Schools

Students explore personal connections to national and local histories, gain an understanding of connections between oppressive systems in the past and present, and create original artistic works.

The Radical Hopefulness Project

In this unit, students will evaluate key claims made in essays from The 1619 Project as well as writing that criticizes the project in order to write a research paper explaining the impact of slavery.

African-American History at Mastery Charter Schools