This hybrid event is an opportunity to learn Black history, Asian American history and the history of solidarity between Black and Asian Americans in the movement for civil rights.

Keynote Address – Dr. Beth Lew-Williams of Princeton University

Amistad Curriculum – Dr. Patrick Lamy, Executive Director of the Amistad Commission

There will be thirteen options for “make-and-take” small group sessions for teachers and curriculum supervisors on Black history, AAPI history and Cross Cultural Solidarity.

• Teaching Asian America in Elementary Classrooms
• Seabrook Farms with Professor Andy Urban of Rutgers University
• How to set up your classroom to prevent microaggressions
• AAPI Curriculum Resources: Toward a Pluralistic Approach to Teaching and Learning
• Building Continental Bridges: Black & Asian American Solidarity with Gabriel Tanglao of NJEA and Sundjata Sekou
• The Life and Legacy of Paul Robeson
• Focus on the W: The Colored Cosmopolitanism of Eslanda Robeson & Black-Asian Solidarity
• Black and South Asian American Solidarity
• When Newark had a Chinatown
• Building Bridges: Fostering Multiracial Solidarity in K-12 Education
• How to psychologically ground oneself for teaching emotionally charged material
• Teaching how Picture Books are Created (including but not limited to Multiculturalism)
• The Intertwined Histories of African enslavement and Asian indenture as part of US Civil War Lessons