Jesse Hagopian will discuss his new book, Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education with Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History.
Jesse Hagopian is an award-winning author, activist, and educator with over two decades of experience in public schools. He co-edited Teaching for Black Lives and Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice. Jesse is the director of the Zinn Education Project’s Teaching for Black Lives Campaign, an editor for Rethinking Schools magazine, and recipient of numerous awards national teaching awards, including the Courageous Leadership award from the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences. He was named a Cultural Freedom Fellow by the Lannan Foundation for his nationally recognized work promoting critical thinking and opposing high-stakes testing.
This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Department of History, UCLA DataX, and the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy.
