If you just found us — welcome. You’re in the right place.

Every week, tens of thousands of people land on this site for the first time. They come from a shared post, a family recommendation, a search for “Black history for kids” or “what to teach my children about their heritage.” Some of them have been looking for something like this for years.

This page is for all of them. This is your start-here guide to Urban Intellectuals.

What Urban Intellectuals Is

Urban Intellectuals is a Black family education platform. We build tools, resources, and community for families who believe that Black children deserve to grow up knowing their full history — not the sanitized, abbreviated version the standard curriculum provides, but the real thing. The documented thing. The thing with names, dates, and context.

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We were founded by Freddie Taylor, an educator and author who spent years watching Black families navigate a curriculum that wasn’t built with their children in mind. His response was to build the resources that should have existed already.

That’s what you’ve found here.

Who We Serve

We serve Black families — and any family raising children in the African American tradition, or any family that wants their children to know the real history of Black America.

That includes:

• Parents who want to supplement what their kids are being taught in school — or actively correct it
• Grandparents who are living archives and want tools to pass down what they know in a structured, engaging way
• Homeschooling families who are building their own curriculum and want resources grounded in Black history and culture
• Educators who want to bring more complete history into their classrooms
• Anyone who grew up feeling like their history was missing from the story and wants to fill in the gaps

What We’ve Built

Our flagship product is the Black History Flashcard collection. These are physical, high-quality flashcards covering over 500 Black history figures, events, and concepts — from foundational Civil Rights leaders to lesser-known inventors, scientists, athletes, and organizers who shaped American history without receiving the credit they deserved.

The flashcards are designed to be used at home, in 10 minutes, around the kitchen table or in the car. Not a classroom supplement. A family practice.

We’ve also built:

• 50 Truths They Tried to Erase — Freddie’s book documenting fifty suppressed pieces of Black history, with sources. Written for families. Used as a conversation starter, a reference, a counter-archive. Read why this book is surging right now.
• The Women’s Edition Flashcards — focused specifically on Black women who shaped history, science, culture, and politics. Because the erasure of Black women’s contributions is its own particular kind of injustice.
• The Black History Wall Calendar — a year of daily history, built for families who want history present in their home environment year-round, not just in February.
• The Sankofa Club — our monthly membership for families who want a steady stream of new history, new resources, and community connection.

Why Right Now

We’ve been doing this for years. But the moment we’re in right now — 2026, with Black history under active political attack, with school curricula being scrubbed, with DEI programs defunded across the country — has given our mission a new urgency.

The pattern of suppressing Black history is not new. What’s new is how visible it is. How overt. How documented. And that visibility is driving hundreds of thousands of families to look for resources they can trust.

We’re here. We’ve been here. And we’re not going anywhere.

How to Start

If you’re new, here’s what we recommend:

1. Start with the flashcards. Pick up Volume 1 of the Black History Flashcards. Spend 10 minutes with them this week. See what your kids already know and what they don’t. Let the gaps in their knowledge open a conversation.

2. Subscribe to our newsletter. We send stories, history, resources, and exclusive offers to half a million families. It’s free. It’s one of the best ways to stay connected to what we’re building and learning about. Sign up below.

3. Read the blog. We publish regularly on Black history, parenting, culture, and the specific challenges of raising empowered Black children in this moment. Browse through and find what speaks to you.

4. Come back. This is a resource that grows over time. The more you engage, the more valuable it becomes. Bookmark us. Share what you find. Bring it to your family dinner conversations.

A Note From Us

Half a million families are part of this community. That number still moves us.

Because every one of those families represents a deliberate choice: to not let the standard curriculum be the last word on what their children know about themselves. To go looking. To keep the archive alive.

That’s the tradition. That’s what we’re here to support.

Welcome to Urban Intellectuals. You belong here.

What brought you here? What are you looking for? Share in the comments — we read them, and we let them shape what we build next.

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