ABSTRACT
Our own education, our teacher education, and our life experiences did not prepare many of us to teach Black histories. Yet we must get prepared. We all, as educators, share the responsibility to teach that Black history is American history and world history. We all share the duty as educators to take the Black histories that sit and wait to be shared in February and bring them into our classrooms now and all year long. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents an invitation to learn, unlearn, and engage in Black histories. An invitation to explore, research, and get uncomfortable. An invitation, regardless of what to teach, whom to teach, or where to teach, to challenge the narrative that Black histories are to be kept locked in February for Black History Month, instead of studied and celebrated in the classroom all year long.
