Police Violence
TeachableMoment
October 10, 2016
BLM Lesson Series 3:
What Is Black Lives Matter Working Towards?
To the Teacher:
The lesson below is the third in a 3-lesson series in which we take a close look at the Black Lives Matter…
TeachableMoment
September 25, 2016
To the Teacher:
On September 16, Terence Crutcher was shot and killed by police in Tulsa, OK. A mere four days later police in Charlotte, NC, shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott.
Crutcher and…
TeachableMoment
September 23, 2016
Introduction
Ask students: Do you know what’s happening at the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation in North Dakota?
Elicit and explain that for the past several months, the Standing Rock…
TeachableMoment
September 11, 2016
BLM Lesson Series Part 2:
"All Lives Matter" versus "Black Lives Matter"
To the Teacher:
The lesson below is the second in a 3-lesson series in which we take a close look at the Black Lives…
TeachableMoment
September 9, 2016
BLM Lesson Series Part 1:
An Introduction
It’s been almost two years since Black Lives Matter, the social protest movement against "the disproportionate impact of state violence on Black lives"…
TeachableMoment
July 9, 2016
To the Teacher
Many of us are reeling from events in the news over the past week. These include the police shootings of two Black men -- Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on July 5 and…
TeachableMoment
May 9, 2015
Print out the following quotes
Quote 1
"Hopefully it’ll be a beacon for other cities here and across the world for dealing with racist police brutality so prevalent in the past in this country and…
TeachableMoment
April 10, 2015
Gathering
Read the following quote out loud:
This case is yet another in a horrifyingly familiar succession of cases that have elevated the issue of use of force, particularly deadly force, by…
TeachableMoment
December 29, 2014
Background for the Teacher
On December 20, 2014, police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were on patrol in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford Stuyvesant. According to reports, at 2:47 in the…
TeachableMoment
December 11, 2014
To the teacher:
This lesson includes two parts. In Part 1, students review the facts about the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases. In Part 2, students break into small groups to discuss six…