DC Area Organizations and Resources for Teachers

Advocacy and Organizing

• Black Lives Matter DMV: a collective of organizers, activists, and artists in DC who work to combat anti-blackness and racialized oppression in all of its manifestations as experienced by Black and African diasporic people.
   

• Empower DC: A citywide, multi-issue, membership-based community organizing project.
   

• EmpowerED: An organization committed to building teacher empowerment in D.C.
  

• FreeDC: A movement led by the people of the District of Columbia to win dignity for our communities and exert our right to self-determination.
  

• Harriet's Wildest Dreams: A Black-led community defense hub centering all Black lives most at risk for state-sanctioned violence in the Greater Washington area.
   

• ONE DC: Organizing work that centers on popular education, community organizing, and alternative economic development projects.
   

• SNCC Legacy Project: veterans preserve and extend the legacy of SNCC.

Children's Literature Reviews and Sources

• Africa Access Review: provides annotations and scholarly reviews of children’s and young adult books that focus on Africa. 
   

• Sankofa Video Books and Café: bookstore, coffeehouse, and author events.
   

• Shout Mouse Press: writing workshops and publishing for D.C. youth.

Museums and Historic Sites

• African American Civil War Museum and Memorial

• Alexandria Black History Museum

• Anacostia Community Museum

• Carter G. Woodson Home

• D.C. History Center

• Frederick Douglass House in Anacostia

• Go-Go Museum & Cafe

• Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad

• Mary McLeod Bethune Council House

• National Museum of African American History and Culture

• National Museum of African Art

• National Museum of the American Indian

• The Phillips Collection

• Ridgeley Rosenwald School

• Riversdale House Museum

• Smithsonian Art Museum

• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Professional Development

• Center for Inspired Teaching: Trains teachers to provide high quality, engaging instruction
  

• Racism in Children's Music: Liberating Music for the Black Child!: Explore racism in children's music with "Uncle Devin" Walker, the Children's Drumcussionist

Youth Programs

• Critical Exposure: trains youth to use photography and advocacy to make real change in their schools and communities. 
   

• Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop: uses books, creative writing, and peer support to awaken DC youth incarcerated as adults to their own potential.
   

• Many Languages, One Voice: Fosters leadership and facilitates community-led initiatives to increase the meaningful inclusion of immigrants in the District of Columbia who do not speak English as their primary language.
  

• Operation Understanding DC: Since 1993, Operation Understanding DC (OUDC) has empowered youth in the DMV to become social justice leaders dedicated to promoting respect, understanding, and the eradication of racism, anti-Semitism, and all forms of discrimination.
  

• Split This Rock: youth poetry workshops and a slam team.
   

• Words, Beats and Life, Inc: uses a holistic approach to youth and community development that involves Hip-Hop artists, scholars, educators, activists, and allies.