Ernest Crim III
Ernest Crim III is a public teacher, antiracist educator and hate crime victor, who uses (Black) historical narratives to empower and educate through a culturally equitable lens. Mr. Crim, a south side of Chicago native and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign graduate, is a former high school history educator of 12 years, who now also advocates for social justice issues and teaches Black History to the world through social media with a platform that reaches roughly 4 million people each month. (As such, he has created content for companies such as HBO, HULU, Disney, Paramount, and the History Channel). Additionally, he is the CEO of Crim’s Cultural Consulting LLC, an international speaker (who has spoken at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, Microsoft, Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp, and audiences in the U.K. and Canada) an author of two books and a passionate progressive education activist who has worked closely with organizations to advocate for educational equity, reparations, mental health awareness and food justice. Mr. Crim has been featured on, and collaborated with, CNN, HBO, The Washington Post, ABC, WGN, PBS, CBS, NBC & Newsweek and various other outlets.
