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Listen & Discover
Students experience overlooked Black history through original audio, storytelling, and guided learning.
XKNOWN Education Foundation
More than history.
Tools for how students think.
XKNOWN Education Foundation brings overlooked Black history into classrooms and youth programs through interactive learning experiences that connect history with strategy, leadership, identity, critical thinking, and real-world decision-making.
Bring XKNOWN to Your StudentsThe XKNOWN learning experience
Students don’t just learn what happened.
They explore how people made decisions, challenged systems, created opportunities, and built legacies—and what those lessons can teach them today.
How students engage
Listen. Think. Create.
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Think & Connect
Students examine strategy, choices, systems, and consequences while connecting history to critical thinking and real-world decision-making.
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Create & Lead
Students apply what they learn through reflection, discussion, and student-led projects that build confidence, communication, and leadership.
Build your legacy library™
Stories students can hold, read, and discuss.
These XKNOWN Color + Learn™ books are part of the wider educational experience. They introduce students to overlooked figures through storytelling, literacy, reflection, and creative learning.
Learning in action
History comes alive when students can see, hear, create, and share.
From Color + Learn™ activities to community learning moments, these experiences show how XKNOWN connects legacy, literacy, creative expression, and youth voice.
The XKNOWN learning experience
Strategy, Leadership & Resistance™
A structured Black history learning program designed for schools and youth organizations. Students explore overlooked historical figures through original audio, animated videos, guided discussion, interactive activities, and real-world connections.
Beyond memorizing facts
Each learning series moves beyond memorizing facts—students examine strategy, identity, leadership, resistance, and the choices people made to create change.
Each historical figure can be explored through an animated video with exact guided pause points. Teachers and youth leaders pause at key moments, use the accompanying questions, and lead discussion before students move into literacy activities and reflection.
That structure creates a learning experience teachers and youth leaders can lead with confidence.
Foundations of Courage & Change™Mary Turner · Robert Smalls · Claudette Colvin · Mary McLeod Bethune
Innovation & LeadershipHenry “Box” Brown · Mary Ellen Pleasant · Lewis Latimer · Septima Clark
Voices That Changed AmericaFrances E. W. Harper · Lucy Parsons · Uncle Tom · Ida B. Wells
Bring XKNOWN to your students
Learning experiences built for schools and youth programs.
XKNOWN Education Foundation works with schools, after-school programs, libraries, parks and recreation programs, and youth-serving organizations to bring overlooked Black history into engaging, structured learning experiences.
XKNOWN Education Foundation
Help us keep the legacy alive.
Your support helps bring overlooked Black history to young people through books, interactive curriculum, audio storytelling, learning resources, and community educational experiences. Every contribution helps put history into the hands of students and gives educators more tools to teach the stories that deserve to be remembered.
Support the MissionXKNOWN Education Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
EIN: 41-4745756 · Oregon Registry Number: 253844998