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Bettina Love, the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, has made numerous contributions to the field of education, specifically abolitionist teaching and antiracism. In 2020, she cocreated a nonprofit organization called the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN). ATN provides education and financial resources to help teachers and families fight racial injustice in their communities and schools. In 2022, she developed the Old 4th Ward Economic Security Task Force with the Atlanta City Council. This task force launched In Her Hands, a financial assistance program designed to provide guaranteed income to Black women residing in Atlanta. Love is also the author of two books, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom and Hip-Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip-Hop Identities and Politics in the New South. She has also provided commentary to a variety of news organizations, such as National Public Radio, PBS, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Further Reading
Evans-Winters, V. E., & Love, B. L. (Eds.). (2015). Black feminism in education: Black women speak back, up, and out. Peter Lang.
Evans-Winters, V. E., Waters, B. S., & Love, B. L. (Eds.). (2018). Twenty years of “Miseducation” and Black girlhood: The Lauryn Hill reader. Peter Lang.
Love, B. (2014). Urban storytelling: How storyboarding, moviemaking, and hip-hop-based education can promote students’ critical voice. English Journal, 103(5), 53–58. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24484246
Love, B. (2016). Anti-Black state violence, classroom edition: The spirit murdering of Black children. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 13(1), 22–25.
Love, B. (2017). Difficult knowledge: When a Black feminist educator was too afraid to #sayhername. English Education, 49(2), 197–208.
Love, B. (2019, May 23). How schools are ‘spirit murdering’ Black and Brown students. Education Week. https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-how-schools-are-spirit-murdering-black-and-brown-students/2019/05
Love, B. (2020, April 29). Teachers, we cannot go back to the way things were. Education Week. https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-teachers-we-cannot-go-back-to-the-way-things-were/2020/04
Love, B., & Duncan, K. E. (2017). Put some respect on our name: Why every Black and Brown girl needs to learn about radical feminist leadership. Bank Street Occasional Paper Series, 38, 1–5.
Love, B., & Muhammad, G. E. (2017). Critical community conversations: Cultivating the elusive dialogue about racism with parents, community members, and teachers about racism. The Educational Forum, 81(4), 446–449. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131725.2017.1350241
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Logwood, D.C., Ali, S.R. (2023). Bettina Love: Restoring Humanity in K-12 Classrooms and Beyond. In: Geier, B.A. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Thinkers . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81037-5_165-1
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