Ax Handle Saturday
The segregated lunch counters are gone, but the ‘Jacksonville Story’ continues. Sixty years ago, white men attacked civil rights demonstrators in downtown Jacksonville. That led to changes in the segregated city.
A WEEKEND OF REMEMBRANCE on Saturday & Sunday, March 21 & 22
These programs have been tentatively rescheduled to August 22-23, 2020 in observance of the International Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
Soil Collection Ceremony And Community Conversation
From Surviving to Thriving in the Jim Crow South
25th Annual African & African American Summer Institute
THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
African American role models: Despite state law, ‘it’s not taught’
African American History and Pedagogy
Professional Development for Educators
Black Migration: Engaging Educators in Local History for Classroom Applications
Professional Development for Educators
ASALH Announces 2019 Black History Theme, Black Migrations
ASALH’s 2019 theme Black Migrations
Commissioner of Education’s African American History Task Force 2018 Education Academies
Changing the Achievement Gap. Teaching African American History in 2018.
Commissioner of Education’s African American History Task Force 2018 Education Academies
The Power of an Educator. A workshop for Miami-Dade and Monroe County Public Schools African American History Advocate Teachers.
Commissioner of Education’s African American History Task Force 2018 Summer Institute
FLORIDA: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN TIMES OF WAR. “You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, there’s a world waiting for you, yours is the quest that’s just begun. James Weldon Johnson
ROCK CONFERENCE 2018 July 12-15, 2018 Doubletree Downtown Riverfront Jacksonville, Florida
Fortifying The Foundation To Empower The Faces of Education
CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING AND LEADING CONFERENCE
APRIL 14, 2018 CRTL WORKSHOP, Professional Development for Educators
Derrick Brooks Charities 306 – African American History Program
2018 Black History Month Event Invitation The Derrick Brooks Charities and the Commissioner of Education’s African American History Task Force have partnered with the nation’s leading technology innovator EVERFI to provide students in Hillsborough County with 306 – African American HistoryTM, a school-based digital program that brings to life the empowering stories of the African American community and helps students draw inspiration from heroes and heroines who changed the fabric of American history.
First black astronaut a forgotten hero
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the loss of one of our most forgotten brothers: Maj. Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., America’s first black astronaut. This year, he is receiving the recognition he’s long deserved.
2020 VIRTUAL SUMMER INSTITUTE
STUDENTS CONTESTS
Celebrate Florida 2019 Black History Month
A CELEBRATION OF INNOVATIVE AFRICAN-AMERICAN LEADERS