Meet the Creator
Brandee Blocker Anderson
Teach Me Antiracism: Democracy was created by Brandee Blocker Anderson, a teacher, law professor, children's book author and mother. Every letter of this series comes from her education and her lived experience.
Brandee is a graduate of Girard College, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and Columbia Law School, where she served on the editorial board of the Columbia Journal of Race and Law. As a Teach For America corps member, she taught English and Social Studies at Sankofa Freedom Academy Charter School in Philadelphia.
She has practiced law, served as a presidential appointee at the U.S. Department of Commerce's Minority Business Development Agency and as the City of Philadelphia's Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, and now teaches Critical Race Studies at Drexel University's law school. She is the founder and CEO of The Antiracism Academy and the author of the Teach Me Antiracism book series.
Where This Series Comes From
Every door has a history. Every arrival has ancestors.
Brandee learned early that walls aren't natural. Someone builds them. Someone writes the rules about who belongs inside. And someone else walks around that wall until the gate opens. She attended Girard College because Black women, children, and civil rights leaders spent months marching around its wall, demanding entry into an institution built to keep children like her out.
One of them was Marie Hicks, a mother who marched at that wall for more than a year, then took the fight to court as one of the parents who sued for their sons' admission. In 1968, after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the school's appeal, the gate opened. Her sons Theodore and Charles were among the first Black boys to walk through it.
That lesson sits at the center of this series. Democracy isn't a finished building. It's a set of rules that people wrote, and people can ask who wrote them, who they leave out and how to change them. That's what the Civic Crew learns in Freedom Hill, one letter at a time.
This series is rooted in a simple belief: every child deserves a real say in the world they're growing up in.
Learn. Return.
Brandee's career has never been a ladder away from where she started. It's been a cycle: learn, then return. She studied, then taught. She went to law school, then learned how institutions and government work from the inside. She came back to the classroom to teach future lawyers how neutral-sounding rules can reproduce inequality. And she built The Antiracism Academy because she didn't believe antiracist knowledge should stay locked inside universities, conferences or expensive consulting engagements.
Turn around
Notice the machinery behind the story. Ask who built the wall and who wrote the rule.
Go back
Carry what you learn back to the people and places you come from.
Bring somebody
Teach the route so more people can find it. Nobody gets free alone.
This series is Brandee bringing the blueprints home: the frameworks she learned at Yale, Penn and Columbia, translated into stories, songs and lessons a nine-year-old can carry.
How It's Made
Human-Made. AI-Assisted.
We teach kids to ask who made something, how, and why. So here's exactly how an episode gets made, and who's responsible for each step.
1. The book
Every letter starts with a poem and a definition from Brandee's Teach Me Antiracism: Democracy book.
Brandee
2. The lesson design
She sets each letter's value, the big question it asks, the history it visits and the action kids take.
Brandee
3. The script and song
Writing tools help turn her outlines into scenes and lyrics. She rewrites, cuts and approves every line.
Brandee, AI-assisted
4. Art, voice and animation
Image, animation, voice and music tools build each scene from her direction.
AI-assisted, Brandee directs
5. Review and redo
She reviews every image, clip and cut, and sends back anything that isn't right.
Brandee
6. Into the classroom
Educator and family units with lesson plans, standards alignment and printables, built from her years of teaching.
Brandee, AI-assisted
New Tools. Shared Power.
For generations, a small number of studios, publishers and networks decided which stories children got to see. Animation, music and production were expensive, so independent educators, and especially educators of color, rarely got the chance to build ambitious children's media outside those institutions.
AI tools changed what one person can build. This series exists because a teacher, law professor and mother didn't have to wait for a gatekeeper to decide her stories were worth telling. In a series about who gets a say, that matters. It's the same reason she built The Antiracism Academy: knowledge shouldn't stay locked inside the gates.
The tools don't know your students. They don't know Freedom Hill, or why a ramp matters in a lesson about equity, or how to talk to a nine-year-old about the Voting Rights Act. Brandee does. The tools do the heavy lifting, and a human makes every call. The ideas, the values and the care are hers.
In Classrooms
Standalone lessons for civics, social studies, ELA and SEL, with pause points, history stops and standards-aligned units.
In Homes
Stories and songs families can share, with a big question for every letter and a simple action to try together.
In Communities
Built for libraries, youth programs, faith communities and civic groups that want young people to have a real say.
