Giving Compass' Take:

• Time Magazine interviews author and professor at Harvard, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, on his new book and why teaching our children and students on race in America is more important than ever. 

• How will teaching students on race differ in different communities? What can parents do to further their children's education and encourage conversations of civil rights outside the classroom? 

• Learn about how and the best ways to teach kids about race. 


Black History Month offers a time to reflect on the past, acknowledge the present, and question the future of race and our civil rights. The importance of reflection is heightened at a time when the number of hate groups and the frequency of hate crimes are on the rise.

With 2019’s month-long celebration of Black History coming to an end (“Negro History Week” was its predecessor until 1976), TIME spoke with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America and a Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, about why teaching black history—and teaching it the right way—is so important in today’s complicated social and political climate.

Read the full article on why educating kids about race in America is more important than ever by Lauren Bogholtz at Time Magazine.