WRITE ME DOWN IN HISTORY: SUPPORTING THE WORK OF NEXT GEN SCHOLARS

Type of Event: Virtual Day of Event Contact: Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans - [email protected] This online workshop will be a mentoring space for the next generation of faculty in race and gender studies. Workshop registration will prioritize the most vulnerable university educators in marginalized fields (like African American Studies or Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) […]

Freedom To Learn Banned Book Reading

Cistern Clearing Avery Road, Waterboro, Maine, United States

Event Type: In-Person Day of Event Contact: Gwendlyn DeYoung-Reynolds - Bring your favorite banned book and something to sit on. Email [email protected] for information.

A Freedom to Learn National Day of Action Event – CREAD

Type of Event: Virtual Day of Event Contact: Text Arie Goodman at 330-234-0921 The Freedom to Learn Network is hosting this day of "national resistance ... to interrupt the ... anti-equity and anti-truth movement that our democracy ... We are taking back our power to organize, educate, and resist." The Center for Research Education Activism […]

Virtual Banned Books Reading Activity and Discussion

Type of Event: Virtual Day of Event Contact: Pat Neal - [email protected] Part One: DKG Virtual Teachers Lounge 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm ET Join Virtual Teachers’ Lounge founders Dr. Karen Gross, Pat Neal, Sakina McGruder, and Dr. Ed Wang to share your thoughts, feelings, and solutions in a safe and comfortable environment.  Invite another educator. Part […]

WE’LL READ & LEARN WHATEVER WE WANT – Freedom 2 Learn National Day of Action

Bustani Ya Upenda (Garden of Love) 5059 Vernon Ave, St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Type of Event: In-Person Day of Event Contact: Dionne Ferguson - [email protected] At Good Journey's youth community garden, Bustani Ya Upenda (Garden of Love): reading excerpts of banned books around garden firepit, burning words of oppression in firepit, creating words of liberation with youth poet, placing banned books in garden little free library

Can’t Ban Us – GA

Type of Event: Virtual Day of Event Contact: Deidra Wright - [email protected] We provided lesson plans and presentations to teachers and parents. We will also host a banned book reading in collaboration with TFC. Teachers will gather after school for a freedom circle dialogue and dish @3:45pm

Teach-In and Banned Books Reading

Audubon Community Church 3219 Chelsea St,, Orlando, Florida, United States

Event Type: Virtual Day of Event Contact: Nikki Fragala Barnes - 321.303.0031 Will invite antiracism facebook group to share excerpts from banned books

Under Attack: Fighting the Assaults on Black Queer and Black Feminist Studies

Opportunities Industrial Center & Online 402 E Virginia St,, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States

Type of Event: Virtual Day of Event Contact: [email protected] Across the country, right-wing politicians and Republican-controlled legislatures are moving to eliminate and censor the teaching of Black feminism and Black queer studies. Cloaked behind the tropes of parents’ rights, the fragility of white youth, and the danger of Critical Race Theory, these forces seek to […]

Freedom to Learn: SOMA Day of Action – RALLY

Spiotta Park, South Orange 20-32 Village Plaza, South Orange, New Jersey, United States

Type of Event: In-Person Day of Event Contact: Stephanie Lawson-Muhammad - [email protected] This day of events on May 3 in South Orange and Maplewood is designed to unite everyone who believes in truth, including activists and racial justice allies in the fight against the College Board's and the state of Florida's attack on the African […]

Banned book Reading/Raffle & Livestream

Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore 3555 Rosecrans Street #107, San Diego, CA, United States

Type of Event: Hybrid Day of Event Contact: Valerie Traina - [email protected] An in-person event that will be livestreamed on IG featuring a banned book raffle and live reading from various banned books.