Mr. Ernest Crim III

A free course for Black History Month and beyond... 29 Black History Facts You (Probably) Didn't Learn in School: A Curriculum for Educators, Parents and the CommunityContext: In January of 2024, Mr. Ernest Crim III collaborated with CBS 2 Chicago to c...

🚨I have a FREE gift for you for Black History Month (and beyond).

I turned my Emmy-nominated series, '29 Black History Facts You (Probably) Didn't Learn in School' into a FREE curriculum that's aligned with Common Core and the Nguzo Saba. 📝

Enjoy. ✊🏾🫡💯

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a group of football players are kneeling on the field and one of them has the number 7 on his jersey . ALT: a group of football players are kneeling on the field and one of them has the number 7 on his jersey .

Sometimes I wonder where we'd be if more NFL players supported Kaepernick.

Sometimes I wonder where we'd be if more of us supported Kaepernick.

What will we do when the opportunity arises this time?

Thank you! I'll try to post more on here too moving forward 😅

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What does this mean to you in this moment? 🤔

“I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves…”

- Dr. W.E.B. DuBois

#quoteoftheday #quote #blackhistory #ushistory #webdubois

Lincoln’s words at Gettysburg called for ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people.’ Black Americans have fought TIRELESSLY to make sure those words are true, which has impacted ALL people. Recent events prove to us that this fight is far from over. Are you ready to keep fighting?

But backlash came hard, of course. Jim Crow laws, lynchings, and systemic racism tried to bury the ideals of Gettysburg. Yet, our people never stopped pushing, and that evidence is seen today as we continue to fight…

And after the war? Our people took ‘a new birth of freedom’ into their own hands by creating schools, building businesses, and fighting for the right to vote. The Reconstruction era was proof that the ideals of Lincoln’s address were were made iconic by our continued fight for liberation.

Our freedom didn’t come solely from speeches or proclamations. Enslaved Africans freed themselves by escaping plantations, sabotaging Confederate efforts, and joining the fight. They turned the Civil War into a battle for emancipation.

The Gettysburg Address came at a pivotal moment during the Civil War. By 1863, Black men were already fighting for their own freedom. Over 180,000 African Americans would serve in the Union Army by the war’s end—risking their lives to actualize the statement that ‘all men are created equal.’

160 years ago today, Lincoln stood on a battlefield in Gettysburg, PA and delivered his ‘Gettysburg Address’ as a “new birth of freedom.” But whose freedom? The promise of equality was far from a reality for Black Americans, who were still in chains. 🧵 #BlackHistory

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Appreciate you! I love the familiarity so far.

… which then led to discussions on James Brown’s impact on hip hop, and finally, this led to us talking about Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s impact on Rock N’ Roll.

If you had to tell the history of your childhood, what songs would serve as an entry point?

Teaching your children history sometimes looks like playing classic songs from your childhood (and priorly) and telling them the backstories associated with them.

Listening to Slick Rick, led to Montell Jordan, which then led to a convo on sampling…

Is BlueSky Twitter circa 2010? If so, I’m all for it.