Professional Development & Presentations

Black Star Rising offers virtual workshops and presentations with Dr. TaSha. Topics include:

For Teachers

• Understanding #BlackLivesMatter in Historical Context
• Teaching in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter: Some Lessons from Black Studies
• Freedom Summer: A Civil Rights Movement Remix
• Relevant Education: Foundations of Black Studies
• Teaching Black Studies: Some Guidelines from One Educator to Another
• There is no Ethnic Studies without Black Studies
• "We Were Kings and Queens": Controversies and Strategies for Teaching Racial Slavery
• The Africana Institute (a multi-day institute in collaboration with community scholars focused on incorporating African epistemologies in the classroom)

For Organizations or Study Groups

• Inventing Race: Origins and Meaning
• Beyond Woke: 7 Strategies to Debunk Racial Ignorance
• Juneteenth and the Propaganda of History
• Doing the Work of Antiracism
• "We're a Winner (And Everybody Knows it Too)": Black Consciousness, Identity and Resistance in an Anti-Black World

Contact us at info@blackstarrising.com to schedule a program that meets your needs.