Black Lives Matter

We don’t have a Sammelband post this week. Instead, we urge our readers to support movements to oppose racial oppression within their communities. Like many others, we have been saddened by the senseless killing of black people at the hands of police in the United States and increasingly dismayed by the response to protests and demonstrations. While it was the death of George Floyd that prompted this round of protests, we remember Breonna Taylor and Sandra Bland. We stand behind the protestors and the Black Lives Matter movement.

As educators, we believe that our job is to teach anti-racist and anti-colonialist pedagogies in the classroom. This month, we encourage you to embrace this mandate if you are a teacher as well. Work through some of the books on this list of Anti-Racist Reading List from Ibram X. Kendi. Donate to causes that fight racial oppression. If you are in the U.S., contact your representatives and urge them to push for reform. Organize within your communities.

Black Lives Matter.