Labor and the Struggle for Black Lives Matter at School
with Jesse Hagopian
March 11, 2021 @ 7pm ET
JESSE HAGOPIAN teaches Ethnic Studies and is the co-adviser to the Black Student Union at Garfield High School—the site of the historic boycott of the MAP test in 2013. An author, editor, labor activist and organizer with Black Lives Matter at School, Jesse Hagopian was the 2019 recipient of “Racial Justice Teacher of the Year” from the NAACP Youth Coalition and the “Social Justice Teacher of the Year” award from Seattle Public School’s Dept. of Racial Equity. He co-edited the books Black LIves Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice (2020) and Teaching for Black Lives (2018).
Sponsored by: UVM United Academics, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, VT AFL-CIO, Haymarket Books, Burlington Peace & Justice Center :