Histories you never knew you always wanted to learn.

Jason Muse started Black Muze Initiative because school-aged children of color deserve to meet extraordinary people whose ingenuity, scholarship, creativity, care and leadership are too often missing from the stories they learn.

He wants children to stumble onto histories they never knew they always wanted to learn about — to see possibility in people and places connected to their own lives, and to practice the thinking that sits behind each achievement.

Every figure is chosen with intention: by identity, by place, by discipline and by the strength of the evidence. These are stories of what people built, discovered, made and led — not stories defined only by oppression, and never a suggestion that extraordinary accomplishment is what makes a person worthy of dignity.

The collection connects with Disciplinary Analytical Pedagogy (DAP), Jason Muse’s developing approach to learning through the thinking practices of each discipline. This first Black collection is one strand of a wider BIPOC educational vision.