The HBS hosts sit down with Dr. Charles McKinney, Jr. to talk about whose history is (and isn’t) being taught.
Following on the heels of a recent and very contentious political debate over the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools, we invited Dr. Charles McKinney, Jr. (Neville Frierson Bryan Chair of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of History at Rhodes College) to sit for a few rounds at the hotel bar as we explore the dynamics of power, liberation, and Truth as they play out in the teaching of history.
- Charles W. McKinney, Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, NC (2010)
- Aram Goudouzian and Charles W. McKinney, Jr., Eds, An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, TN (2018)
- Timuel D. Black, Jr., Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black (2019)
- Carter G. Woodsen, The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933)
- Summer of Soul (2021 documentary)
- “Questlove Discusses His Must-See New Doc, ‘Summer Of Soul'” (NPR, 2021)
- Jarvis Givens, Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching (2021)
- Dan van Winkle, “Tennessee Republicans Are Trying to Remove Ruby Bridges from School. In 2021” (The Mary Sue, 2021)
- Ruby Bridges, Ruby Bridges Goes To School: My True Story (2009)
- Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (1967)
