{"id":119881,"date":"2026-02-21T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/119881\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:00:06","slug":"philadelphia-summit-recognizes-black-history-education-milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/119881\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia summit recognizes Black history education milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edwin Perez and Amber Austin, teachers from the Baltimore County area, said they found out about the event on social media. They attended the summit to contribute to the conversation on community-centered education and to take what they learned back to their colleagues, students and community.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has to be something that continues throughout the year \u2014 talking about Black identity, Black culture, support for our Black students or support for our Black community,\u201d Perez said.\n<\/p>\n

Understanding the fullness of Black history is foundational to that goal, Austin added. \u201cI think it\u2019s important for us to ensure that we are not only having a continuity of legacy but a continuity of correct and accurate legacy, and in these conversations we are not gatekeeping information, we\u2019re sharing stories, especially from our elders,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n

Attendees and speakers were also invited to contribute to a time capsule of educational messages, notes and pictures commemorating 20 years of Philadelphia\u2019s Black education leadership.\n <\/p>\n

Organizers said sustaining Black history education within local communities has taken on new urgency, against a political backdrop that includes growing efforts nationwide to limit race-based curricula, financial aid and student services, and the recent removal of a set of exhibits about enslaved people from the President\u2019s House Site in Philadelphia.
\n\"\"Stickers and paper provided for attendees and participants to create content for time capsule project. (Eric Nixon\/WHYY)\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIn today\u2019s anti-Black world when we see Black histories being erased from museums, classrooms \u2014 literally from the streets of Philadelphia \u2014 events like this are more important than ever,\u201d Blackprint 20 committee member Abigail Henry said.\n<\/p>\n

Chris Rogers, coordinator of the Henry Oswood Tanner House in North Philadelphia, spoke about how classrooms are not just rooms in a school. He said the classroom can extend to any space where members of a community can share history and educate one another. \u201cWe create classrooms all over the place,\u201d Rogers said. \u201cLike, even when I\u2019m waiting for the 21 in West Philadelphia. So, opportunity there to talk about the history and the connections.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edwin Perez and Amber Austin, teachers from the Baltimore County area, said they found out about the event…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[47998,69,71,70,1998],"class_list":["post-119881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-black-history-month","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-school-district-of-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}