Join Us November 17th for the 1967 Freedom Walk Celebration + Submit Your Blackprint 20 Proposal
Ismael Jimenez
I am excited to share an invitation to join the Jubilee School’s Celebration of the 1967 Freedom Walk for Black History and Culture on Monday, November 17, 2025. This community event, led by Jubilee’s 5th and 6th grade students, honors the courageous young people who organized the 1967 Student Walkout in Philadelphia demanding that Black history and culture be taught in our public schools.
Participants will gather at 4:00 PM at the intersection of 21st Street and the Parkway and march together to the Parkway Central Library for a 5:00 PM program featuring student presentations, poetry, and live music by Alfie Pollitt and Robert Kenyatta. This commemoration is open to all—students, educators, families, and community members are encouraged to attend.
📅 November 17, 2025
📍 21st & the Parkway → Parkway Central Library, Philadelphia, PA
🔗 RSVP: Scan the QR code on the flyer or at
In addition, we invite you to submit a proposal to present at Blackprint 20: Education as the Practice of Freedom, a convening dedicated to advancing the study and teaching of Black history and culture across educational spaces.
👉 Submit your proposal by November 16, 2025, at bit.ly/Blackprint20
Please also save the dates for the Blackprint 20 events:
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🏆 Blackprint 20 Awards Banquet – February 6, 2026
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🎓 Blackprint 20 Summit – February 7, 2026
We look forward to celebrating the legacy of student activism that continues to shape Philadelphia’s story and to amplifying the educators, scholars, and community voices carrying that work forward today.
Registration information for Blackprint 20 will be available very soon.
Please share it widely!
Warm regards,
The past lives in your brain; in your behavior; the way you see life and the way you see yourself. Everything that happens to you in the present is filtered through past experiences present in your mind. This means the past is operationally present at every moment. If that past is distorted, if your perception of it is incorrect, if it’s absent. Then when you look at things in the present, your perception will be distorted. You will not be able to effectively use what you see right in front of your face. You will not be able to take advantage of possibilities that you have nor will you be able to design your own future, because your history has been distorted.
-Amos Wilson
