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• Tribeca Film Institute Partners with Community Classroom for Curricula Celebrating Black Women Leaders

  Developed in partnership with the Tribeca Film Institute, this collection features three films about African American women leaders: Daisy Bates: The First Lady of Little Rock, The Interrupters, and The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975. The second in our series of lesson plans introduces Ameena Matthews — a former drug ring enforcer and daughter of one of Chicago’s most notorious gang leaders, who uses her unique skills and charisma as a violence interrupter to identify and de-escalate conflicts before they turn to bloodshed. In this lesson, students will contemplate the realities of violence, its devastating impact on communities, and the capacity of “violence interrupters” to break the cycle of violence. Students will also investigate the role gender plays in engaging communities and changing social norms around peace and violence. Learn more

• More Than a Mapp Interactive Mapp and Educator Guide

  Introducing a free iPhone and iPod app that allows users to discover and contribute to the African American history that exists all around us. The location-enabled application can reveal sites of significance to black history in your city, and allows you to upload map points of your own. The crowd-sourced and moderated data will grow to reveal that history doesn’t just live in books; it has a presence in the everyday places we find ourselves. The standards-aligned educator's guide can be used as a curriculum companion to both the app, as well as to the film that inspired it: More Than a Month. Get the app