Jesse Hagopian is a Seattle educator, an editor for Rethinking Schools magazine, a founding steering committee member of Black Lives Matter at School and serves as the director of the Teaching for Black Lives Campaign for the Zinn Education Project. His most recent book from Haymarket Books is Teach Truth: The Attack on Critical Race Theory and the Struggle for Antiracist Education. Jesse is editor of More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High Stakes Testing and co-editor of the books, Teaching for Black Lives, Black Lives Matter at School and Teachers Unions and Social Justice.
PoliticsElection 2026
The Hour Before Dawn
With the Voting Rights Act gutted and education under attack, building democratic power must reach beyond the ballot box—and into classrooms and the streets
Jesse Hagopian
Viewpoint
Louisiana’s CRT Ban Continues the Long History Suppressing Black Education
Throughout history, those in power have labeled antiracist pedagogy and the education of Black people as dangerous and inflammatory.
Jesse Hagopian
ViewpointPalestine
Eric Adams Allegedly Took Bribes to Erase the Genocide That Killed My Ancestors
The mayor’s silence on the Armenian genocide mirrors his refusal to condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Jesse Hagopian