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.
   

• 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.

Find more groups on the Washington Peace Center directory.

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
   

• Frederick Douglass House in Anacostia
   

• 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
   

• Ridgeley Rosenwald School
   

• 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.
   

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

• 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.
   

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