The 3E Program’s self-paced online course, for middle & high school students —featuring video lessons, advocacy activities, and live guest speaker sessions— will begin on February 10th. 

Worldwide — January 21, 2025 — The 3E Program for Social Justice and Change is thrilled to announce that enrollment for its Winter 2025 semester is now open. This self-paced online U.S. History course uniquely integrates African American and BIPOC histories, offering parents a transformative educational opportunity that fosters Ethics, Empathy, and Empowerment. The semester begins on February 10, 2025, with early enrollment open from January 21 to February 9 and late enrollment available from February 10 to 28.

Parents seeking to enrich their children’s education with meaningful at-home extracurriculars will find this program invaluable. Designed for middle and high school students aged 13-18, the 3E Program explores pivotal yet often overlooked topics in traditional classrooms—including mass incarceration, police brutality, and systemic racism—through a comprehensive curriculum that blends interactive lessons, critical thinking activities, and virtual guest speaker engagements. This course equips students with a profound understanding of historical and contemporary injustices while fostering ethical decision-making and advocacy skills. Participants will need a computer and internet access to engage in the program from home.

“At a time when Black history is being removed from schools and silenced, access to a course like the 3E Program is more important than ever,” said Sherri Rankins, a parent who enrolled her child in the program.

Parents or guardians interested in enrolling their middle or high school students in the 3E Program for Social Justice and Change can sign up today at www.3EProgram.com. Early enrollment ends February 9, 2025. To learn more about the program, please visit the website for additional details.

About the 3E Program for Social Justice and Change
The 3E Program for Social Justice and Change empowers middle and high school students with an inclusive understanding of U.S. history. Featuring film segments from the award-winning documentary Betrayal of a Nation by activist and educator Brandi Webb, the program sheds light on critical historical events and narratives often absent from traditional curricula. Assessments show 99% of students significantly increased their historical knowledge, with 80% feeling empowered and equipped to create positive change and 75% reporting growth in empathy.

The program is designed for implementation in school classrooms, community-based organizations (CBOs), and at home for students without access through their schools or CBOs. Additionally, we offer in-person professional development and workshops on individual lesson topics to schools and CBOs.

The program has featured influential guest speakers, including Gwen Carr (mother of Eric Garner) and relatives of victims from the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Tulsa Race Massacre. Alumni can become program ambassadors, gaining access to paid opportunities, cultural field trips, and college admissions support.

To learn more about the 3E Program or our workshops, visit www.3eprogram.com/learn-more/.

Teenagers Autumn Kendall, 14, and Aurora Morgan, 15, gear up for their book signing event debuting a children’s book that sheds light on historical events, featuring characters inspired by civil rights leaders, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Chairman Fred Hampton. 

New York, NY – May 19, 2024 – Teenagers Autumn Kendall, 14, and Aurora Morgan, 15, are excited to announce the release of their children’s book, “The Three Heroes,” and their first book signing event in East Harlem, NY on June 4, 2024, at 6pm. “The Three Heroes,” developed under the 3E Program for Social Justice and Change, is a compelling tale featuring characters inspired by civil rights leaders Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Chairman Fred Hampton. The story introduces a villain resembling J. Edgar Hoover, who led the FBI’s COINTELPRO operations aimed at undermining these activists. Though the characters are fictional, the book sheds light on historical events and the impact of COINTELPRO.

3E Program students, Autumn and Aurora, created this book as an assignment for their 3E Program culmination ceremony, choosing a topic they found most compelling during the course. The program’s creators, Melody Michaux and Brandi Webb, guided the girls in successfully publishing their book. Written for children ages 3-11, “The Three Heroes” uses accessible language to make the complex subject matter easy for young readers to understand. To avoid making the story too frightening, terms like “gunshots” are replaced with “shooting laser beams.”

The book signing event will feature live readings of selected excerpts, engaging conversations with the young authors, and opportunities for attendees to purchase signed copies of the book. Autumn and Aurora believe in the importance of early education on history, stating, “One is never too young to learn their history, whether good or bad.”

To attend this event, please register here.

About the 3E Program for Social Justice and Change:

The 3E Program for Social Justice and Change is an innovative online U.S History course designed to provide an inclusive education on African American history. The program currently integrates Google Classroom, allowing for seamless implementation in school curricula and also offers a self-paced at-home option for young scholars. It emphasizes critical thinking, ethics, empathy, and empowerment, encouraging students to delve deeply into the history and current state of African American communities in the U.S. Students are provided with opportunities for cultural and historical field trips, such as visits to the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, and Black Wall Street in Tulsa Oklahoma. Additionally, they can learn from guest speakers, including activists, historians, and witnesses to impactful events like Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, and Michael McCarty, former Black Panther Party member. The program’s curriculum is inspired by Brandi Webb’s documentary “Betrayal of a Nation,” which explores the oppressive forces against Black and Brown communities through a trial format.

For more information about the event and the 3E Program, please visit www.3eprogram.com.

Educators Brandi Webb and Melody Michaux develop a history program for middle and high school students, free of distortions and omitted truths, with a goal to build a new legacy free of racism. 

NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Film director and educator Brandi Webb collaborated with veteran educator Melody Michaux, to develop the 3E Program for Social Justice and Change. The 3E Program is a U.S History curriculum resource that provides middle and high school educators with lesson plans, resources, assessments, and video segments and uses New York state standards as a basis. These standards fall in line with social studies requirements in many other states. Video segments used to accompany 3E Program lessons are from Webb’s award winning documentary, Betrayal of a Nation. Film topics addressed include the American Dream, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, the Tulsa Race Massacre, and Reparations, along with five other topics. With a focus on Ethics, Empathy, and Empowerment, the program offers instructors an opportunity to provide their students an in-depth examination of historical events that have impacted African Americans and People of Color. These events have been lightly touched on, distorted, or omitted altogether in conventional U.S History syllabi. The goal of the 3E Program is to build a new legacy free of racism.

Betrayal of a Nation is an experimental documentary that chronicles U.S History in the format of a trial and indicts U.S agencies on charges related to the oppression of Black and Brown citizens. The film received awards from the People’s Film Festival, IndieFilm Fest, and has screened at several festivals during 2021. After viewing the documentary, Michaux and other participants expressed a need for the film to be shown in schools as a learning resource for students. In response to the overwhelming demand to have the film’s topics integrated into school curricula, Webb and Michaux created the 3E Program.

Administrators from schools and organizations, teachers, and parents that are homeschooling, can access the subscription based program online at www.3eprogram.com. Professional development is offered to schools who wish to implement the program in their classrooms. The 3E Program for Social Justice and Change also provides virtual classes of the history curriculum for homeschooled students, taught by 3E Program educators. Virtual classes begin November 28th.

“Ms. Webb’s research and vision brilliantly takes students on a journey that fills many gaps in African American history,” stated Michael Oby, Professor at Clark Atlanta University.

About

Brandi Webb has been producing and directing film and theater for 17 years. She worked as a teacher for the NYC Department of Education, taught film and theater for various organizations, and committed her time and talent to activism, filming protests and events for social justice organizations. Melody Michaux served as an educator, curriculum writer, and educational consultant, spanning 35 years of service with the NYC Department of Education and the Atlanta Public Schools. She founded The Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Academy in Atlanta, a single gender school.

To learn more about the 3E Program for Social Justice and Change, visit www.3eprogram.com.