Finding Renewal and Inspiration through the Teaching and Learning of Black Education

ABSTRACT Drawing on counter-storytelling and oral history methodology, we reflect on how the teaching and learning of the past, present, and future of Black education in the Spring of 2022 both renewed and inspired us as students and a professor. Using visuals to show how students made meaning of what they were learning, we explore the dynamics, content, and lasting meaning of this educational experience that followed a “winter” characterized by a global pandemic, continued killings of unarmed Black people and reckoning with systemic racism, and the insurrection at the nation’s Capital. In total, we delineate what it means to create space for and be a part of legacies and lineages of liberatory Black education.