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.

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

Equity Diversity Inclusion

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.

CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING AND LEADING CONFERENCE

APRIL 14, 2018 CRTL WORKSHOP, Professional Development for Educators

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

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 Education Academies

Changing the Achievement Gap. Teaching African American History in 2018.

ASALH Announces 2019 Black History Theme, Black Migrations

ASALH’s 2019 theme Black Migrations

Black Migration: Engaging Educators in Local History for Classroom Applications

Professional Development for Educators

African American role models: Despite state law, ‘it’s not taught’

The Palm Beach Post Article

African American History and Pedagogy

Professional Development for Educators

25th Annual African & African American Summer Institute

THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

Equity Conference

Equity Diversity Inclusion

Civil Rights Hall of Fame

Hall of Fame

Celebrate 120th Anniversary of The Black National Anthem

Black National Anthem

The Unveiling of the Historical Black Church Project

SATURDAY, FEBUARY 29, 2020

How A Florida Tragedy Is Being Brought To Light A Century Later

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

Sam Wineburg Livestream

Thursday, March 26th, 2020 – 4:00 – 6:00pm PT

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.

1920 Ocoee Election Day Riots

Mary Beth Tinker

Friday, April 23, 2021

Soil Collection Ceremony And Community Conversation

From Surviving to Thriving in the Jim Crow South

2020 VIRTUAL SUMMER INSTITUTE

The 1619 Project and the stories we tell about slavery

African American History in the United States

Celebrate Florida 2019 Black History Month

A CELEBRATION OF INNOVATIVE AFRICAN-AMERICAN LEADERS