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I tell the stories that got left out, in front of conferences, schools, universities, and anybody else who wants the whole record instead of the comfortable half of it.
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Ernest Crim III
I Teach BlackHistory So OurKids Can Use It.
I spent twelve years teaching history in two low-income Title I schools, and the thing I kept running into was how much of our story gets left out of the books our kids are handed, so now I take the history that got skipped and put it back in front of people, in classrooms, on stages, in boardrooms, and anywhere else somebody is willing to sit with it long enough to do something about it.
Educator · Author · Speaker · Producer · Founder
Speaking · Education · Books · Cultural Strategy
Crim's Class Nonprofit
This Work Doesn't Stop at the Stage.
We also run Crim's Class Nonprofit, a 501(c)(3) that puts curriculum, training, and learning experiences in front of communities that have been historically overlooked and under-resourced, without a price tag standing between our kids and their own history.
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Why This Work Matters
When We Only Teach Half of It, Our Kids Only Understand Half of Where They Live.
When Black history gets pushed to the margins, flattened into a month, or told wrong on purpose, the damage does not stay in the classroom, it shows up years later in how people vote, in how they read the news, in how they run the institutions they end up running, and in what they are willing to believe about the folks living down the street from them.
- The gaps in what we were taught turn into blind spots we carry into adulthood.
- How our kids read a system depends on whether anybody explained where it came from.
- Complete history gives you understanding, agency, and something to hold people to.
Why This Work Matters
History is not background. It is context.
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
Meet Ernest
I Started in a Classroom, and I Never Really Left It.
Everything I do now, meaning the research, the films, the books, and the talks, comes out of what I learned standing in front of a room of teenagers who could tell in about four minutes whether I actually believed what I was saying, and that is still the only test I care about, whether I am talking to a seventh-grade class or a room full of executives.
- Former public-school history teacher
- Emmy-nominated producer
- Award-winning educator and author
- Cultural competency specialist
- Founder and nonprofit visionary
- Speaker for schools, companies, institutions, and communities
Professional Trajectory
One lesson, carried from a classroom of thirty into rooms I never expected it to reach.
- 01Classroom Education
I started where the questions start, with a room full of students asking why nobody told them.
- 02Media Production
I learned to carry those lessons past the classroom door, into film and television.
- 03Authorship
I put the history our families deserve into books they can keep on the shelf.
- 04Public Speaking
I take the same lesson into schools, companies, and communities that want the whole record.
- 05Crim's Class
I built a place where our history keeps teaching long after I leave the stage.
Work With Ernest
Here Is How We Can Work Together.
I build talks, workshops, and materials for our kids, for the teachers standing in front of them, and for the institutions that decide what those classrooms get, and the goal is always the same one I had as a teacher, that people leave knowing something true and knowing what to do with it on Monday.
I adapt every program for schools, companies, cultural institutions, and community organizations.
Workshops & Training
We work through it together, teachers, institutions, and organizations, until everybody in the room has language they can actually use the next morning.
Schools & Educators
Curriculum you can teach tomorrow, programs built for our kids, and professional learning that respects how little time you actually have.
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Consulting & Content Partnerships
I help teams tell this history right the first time, whether that is a film, a campaign, an exhibit, or a curriculum somebody is about to put in front of a lot of kids.
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This Keeps Going After I Leave the Room.
The same history shows up on a stage, in a classroom, on a phone screen, in a book somebody reads with their daughter at bedtime, and in the partnerships I take on with institutions, and I have never found a reason to make it simpler than it is just because the room changed.
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- Years in the Education System
- 16+Years in the Education System
- Emmy Nominated
- 4XEmmy Nominated
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Take This Home With You.
Everything here is something I have used or made, the books, the curriculum, the reading lists, and the class I keep teaching every week, and it is all built so a classroom, a family, or somebody working through this on their own can pick it up without needing me in the room.
Resources for educators, families,
students, and lifelong learners.
How Black History Can Save Your Life
I wrote this for anybody who has been on the receiving end of racism and wanted something more useful than advice, so it walks through the history and then through what you can actually do with it.
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The ABCs of Affirming Black Children
My wife and I made this one for our own kids first, so it teaches identity, history, and affirmation in language a child can hold onto.
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Free Black History Curriculum
The materials I wish I had when I was teaching, free for any educator or independent learner who needs them.
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Crim's Class
Where I keep teaching every week, the history that got skipped, what it explains about right now, and what we can do about it.
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Crim's Class Nonprofit
We Built Something That Outlasts Any One Talk.
Crim's Class Nonprofit is how we get these resources, these partnerships, and these learning experiences into the hands of communities that have been historically overlooked and under-resourced, without asking them to pay for the privilege of learning their own history.
Curriculum & Learning
We build learning materials that stay accurate and stay useful, because our kids can tell when they are being handed something thin.
Institutional Partnerships
We work alongside schools, museums, and civic organizations so this history lives in their core work instead of one week of programming.
Community Engagement
We put this history in front of people where they already are, so it can meet what they are actually living through.
What Happens Next Depends on What We Do With What We Know.
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