LOOKING BACK TOGETHER
SO THAT WE DARE TO
DREAM OF A FUTURE TOGETHER
"Education as the practice of freedom"
– Bell Hooks
Course Features
A 9-week survey of American history with lectures + group discussions + next steps.
Designed for individuals or groups/organizations.
Academic Expertise
In partnership with University professors and thought leaders, the course is grounded in scholarly research.
Experiential Knowledge
The course emphasizes a historical and contemporary lived experience to provide a grounded understanding.
Community Transformation
Our model of community transformation is integrated into our courses, proven at the individual and organizational level.
Action for a New Day
Stories and practical examples from everyday life inspire hope, allowing every person to play a part in the change.
Black History For A New Day
The History That You Weren’t Taught.
The flagship course that transformed a community and is now a national model for a foundational understanding of American history.
Online Individual or Group Options
From a movement to just solutions.
The story of a city’s transformational justice.
Created to transform a community with one of the largest racial disparities in the country, Justified Anger: Courses have fueled a movement of systemic change that has spread through the business, education, health, and faith sectors. Now you can let these courses transform you and your own community.
What Participants Are Saying
The Course Experience
A Transformational Experience
Lectures + Discussion + Next Steps
Meet Your Instructors
Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara
Chair and Professor – Department of African American Studies at UW – Madison
Dr. Clark-Pujara is committed to both academic scholarship and public history. As a historian of colonial North America and the early American Republic, her research focuses on the experiences of Black people in French and British North America in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
Lilada Gee
Artist and Founder of Defending Black Girlhood
Lilada Gee has committed her life to the defending of Black girlhood and the healing of Black women. With more than 30 years in the fields of education and social services, Lilada founded Black Woman Heal—a Madison-based non-profit organization that inspires Black women to join her in her life’s work to defend Black girlhood, by creating safe places for Black girls as well as themselves, to heal.
