Contact Abigail Henry

Abigail Henry is a Schomburg Fellow and doctoral student at University at Buffalo. Prior to moving to Buffalo, Abigail taught 9th grade African American History at a charter school in west Philadelphia for twelve years. Abigail has won Pulitzer Center grants to develop curriculum incorporating the 1619 Project, helped overhaul the historic twenty year update to the School District's of Philadelphia's African American History curriculum, and is founder of theBLKcabinet, a consultancy that focuses on Black history education and racial proficiency development. As a graduate fellow at UB she is working to support the development of the Teaching Black History and Racial Center as instructor for the Teaching Black History microcredential program. Additionally, Her other Black History and Racial Literacy consulting has been provided for Villanova University, Haverford College, PBS, Trellis for Tomorrow Foundation, True Fiktion, the College Board, among others.

Pulitzer Center's 1619 Project Teaching Lab

This 1619 Project Teaching Lab was created by Abigail Henry and funded through the Pulitzer Center's Education Impact Grant. The goal of this project is to support teachers in the Greater Philadelphia area with teaching Black history using resources from the 1619 Project Education Network.

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Lessons and Unit Plans on: Confederate Memorials, Meek Mill, and Field vs. House work all available here

AP AAS Teacher Solidarity Postcards

To show solidarity with teachers facing repression, my seniors each created and wrote postcards we mailed to teachers in Florida. All of them can be viewed here.

AAH Student Work Example 1

Confederate Memorials Research Paper

For this assignment 9th grade students researched Confederate memorials and crafted a 5 paragraph essay about who the U.S. should memorialize.

AAH Student Work Example 2

Sankofa Mix Tape

For this end of the year project assignment 9th grade students created a playlist that relates to Black history, they had to design an album cover and explain in more detail 2 songs they selected.

AP AAS Student Work Example

Unit 2 Debate

In preparation for a summative debate students brainstormed different resistance strategies that brought African Americans closer to freedom prior to the start of the Civil War.

SMC Student Work Example 1

Vermont Local Black History

This is an African American for History for Teachers (AAHT) that student created on local Black History. "The areas of the vision board that have images, titles, and other visuals are the areas of the state where communities of color experience the highest cumulative impact of environmental disparity ."

SMC Student Work Example 2

Black History Month Proposal

For this AAHT Black History Month proposal a student created a collage inspired elementary school project focused on art inspired by a Black artist.

theBLKcabinet additional Resources

Pulitzer CenterPublicationsUnit 1 - Atlantic Slave WarUnit 2 - Evaluating the 1619 Project ClaimsLast Seen Ads Lesson plans and resourcesPBS Emancipation/Juneteenth LessonBlog writing and publicationsBlog Writing about Teaching Black HistoryWhat We Lose When We Whitewash Black History

Example Unit Plans Written for School District of Philadelphia's update of African American History Curriculum

Development of the Modern World System

This unit contains multiple lessons and suggested performance tasks for teaching about the Atlantic Slave Trade.

Race, Slavery, and Resistance in the Early U.S.

This unit contains multiple lessons and suggested performance tasks for teaching about the arrival of enslaved-Africans in 1619, including some lessons written for the Pulitzer Center.

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