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Big questions. Brave voices. Shared power.
Teach Me Antiracism: Democracy helps kids understand how democracy really works, and how to practice it now. Through animated stories, original music and real history, viewers learn that democracy is more than a vote. It's sharing power, protecting rights, asking hard questions and showing up for each other.
Made for families, classrooms, and communities raising thoughtful, curious, and engaged kids.
Made by a teacher, a law professor and a mom
This series comes from Brandee Blocker Anderson: a former Philadelphia classroom teacher, a law professor who teaches how rules get written and who they leave out, the author of the Teach Me Antiracism books, and a mother. Every word, value and question in it comes from her education and her lived experience.
"AI helped me bring it to life. It didn't decide what it says."
Meet BrandeeWhat the series teaches
Six big ideas woven through every episode, building the vocabulary and the habits kids need to share power.
Sharing power
Leading in a way that gives more people a real say.
Protecting rights
Making sure no vote can take away anyone's dignity.
Learning from difference
Seeing that more voices make better decisions.
Asking hard questions
Who decided? Who's missing? Who does this help?
Holding leaders accountable
Checking that promises turn into action.
Showing up after the vote
Staying involved until the promise is real.
Meet the Civic Crew
Ten kids from Freedom Hill, a Philadelphia neighborhood of rowhouses, murals, corner stores and libraries. None of them can vote yet. All of them are learning how to have a say anyway.
Naomi (she/her)
A natural leader learning to share power.
Teo (he/him)
Can make anyone listen, and is learning to make sure what they hear is true.
Lina (she/her)
Wants the right answer, and is learning that communities hold knowledge too.
Eli (he/him)
Can design anything, and is learning to design it with the people who'll use it.
Yani (she/her)
Knows that land has history and communities have memory.
Nora (she/her)
Asks whether a rule works for everyone, including the people it forgot.
Sofia (she/her)
A powerful advocate learning that leading means listening.
Zuri (they/them)
Believes truth belongs to the public, and tells it with care.
DJ (he/him)
Doesn't trust slogans. Wants to know who'll actually do the work.
Mika (he/him)
The youngest of the crew. Asks the question the grown-ups forgot.
How It Works
Three simple steps turn each episode into real democracy practice, for kids and the adults who love them.
Every episode is designed so that learning doesn't stop when the screen turns off. It starts a conversation and sparks action.
Explore the A to Z of Democracy
Each episode tackles a new letter and a new idea, building a complete democracy vocabulary one story at a time.
Full episodes A to H are free in the demo. New letters are added as they're released.
View All EpisodesHuman-made. AI-assisted. Here's the difference.
We teach kids to ask who made something, how, and why. So we'll go first. This series is led by one educator and built with the help of AI tools.
What comes from Brandee
- The original Teach Me Antiracism: Democracy book and every poem in it
- The 26 words, the value behind each one and the big question it asks
- The characters, the neighborhood and where every story goes
- Which history gets told, and how to tell it truthfully
- The curriculum, standards alignment and classroom safeguards
- Every final call. She reviews every image, clip and cut, and sends back what isn't right.
What AI tools help with
- Drafting scripts and lyrics from her outlines, which she rewrites and approves
- Turning her direction into artwork and animation
- Giving the characters voices
- Producing music and sound
- Doing in weeks what used to take a studio, a network and millions of dollars
Why use AI at all? Because democracy includes who gets to make the media.
For generations, a small number of studios and networks decided which stories kids got to see. A teacher with a curriculum, a law professor with a lesson, a Black mother with a story to tell: they had to wait for someone with a budget to say yes. Most never heard it.
New tools are changing who gets to create. This series exists because one educator didn't have to wait for permission. That's shared power, the very thing these episodes teach. The tools helped build it. The ideas, the values and the care are human.
See How an Episode Gets MadeBuilt for Every Learning Space
For Educators
Classroom-ready lessons for civics, social studies, ELA and SEL. Every unit is standards-aligned, with pause points, history stops and songs.
- Lesson plans and rubrics
- Vocabulary from the book's glossary
- Discussion questions
- Printable classroom materials
For Families
Watch together, sing together and talk about fairness, power and belonging. Each letter comes with conversation starters and a family activity.
- Kid-friendly episodes and songs
- Conversation starters
- Family activities
- A shared language for big ideas
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