This special edition came about after scholars presented and discussed perspectives on the important influences of Howard Zinn to education, history, and citizenship at the 2010 Midwest Peace and Justice Summit in Indianapolis.
Poet Martín Espada wrote a poem to honor Howard Zinn called “Castles for the Laborers and Ballgames on the Radio.”
He read the poem during a 2013 interview on Moyers & Company.
A collection of Howard Zinn's speeches, edited by Anthony Arnove, was released by Haymarket Books.
During the 2011–2012 school year, the non-profit organization Voices of a People’s History ran a pilot project in Chicago to bring free educational resources, public performing arts programming, film screenings, and professional development workshops to educators and their students in Chicago area public schools and in community organizations.
"Last week, the Tucson Unified School District eliminated a popular Mexican American Studies program in local high schools that, in a short period of time, had done a lot of good."
Noam Chomsky, noted author and philosopher, and Anthony Arnove, filmmaker and editor, spoke at SUNY-New Paltz, on Dec. 4, 2011 in tribute to the legacy and life's work of Howard Zinn. This event was titled "Honoring Howard Zinn: A Historian Who Made History."
There was a standing-room-only crowd at the new Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville, Md., for the special event on Sept. 21, 2011 to celebrate International Peace Day, dedicate the Zinn Room, and raise funds for the Zinn Education Project.
Danny Glover, featured in the film The People Speak, will receive the 2011 Eugene V. Debs Award.
"I had lunch with the historian Howard Zinn just a few weeks before he died in January 2010. He was chagrined about the state of affairs in the U.S. but not at all daunted. ‘If there is going to be change,’ he said, ‘real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves.'"
The writer and film maker Paul Laverty was asked recently why he and director Icíar Bollaín dedicated his new film "Even the Rain (Tambien La Lluvia)," set in Bolivia and starring Gael Garcia Bernal, to the historian Howard Zinn.
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International Journal of Social Education: Special Issue on Howard Zinn
Posted: January 25, 2013 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Articles & Interviews, Articles about Howard Zinn, News Tags: Education, Zinn Education Project
Castles for the Laborers and Ballgames on the Radio
Posted: January 17, 2013 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Audio & Video, Audio and Video About Howard Zinn, News, Video About Howard Zinn Tags: Bill Moyers, Tribute
New Release: Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963 – 2009
Posted: May 19, 2012 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: News Tags: Noam Chomsky
The People Speak in Chicago Schools
Posted: February 13, 2012 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: News Tags: Voices of a People's History
A People’s History Banned in Tucson Schools
Posted: January 24, 2012 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Articles about Howard Zinn, In the News, News Tags: A People's History of the United States, Book Ban, In the News
Honoring Howard Zinn: A Historian Who Made History
Posted: December 4, 2011 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Audio & Video, Audio and Video About Howard Zinn, News, Video About Howard Zinn Tags: Noam Chomsky, Tribute
Educators and Activists Celebrate the Legacy of Howard Zinn and the Zinn Education Project
Posted: October 10, 2011 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Audio & Video, Audio and Video About Howard Zinn, News, Video About Howard Zinn Tags: Zinn Education Project
The People Speak Actor Danny Glover to Receive the Debs Award
Posted: July 12, 2011 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: News
Tip of the Cap to Howard Zinn from the New York Times’ Bob Herbert
Posted: February 12, 2011 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: News
Film Even the Rain/Tambien La Lluvia Dedicated to Howard Zinn
Posted: February 5, 2011 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Articles about Howard Zinn, In the News, News Tags: In the News