Brian Jones

Brian Jones has taught students of all ages and grades in New York City’s public schools and at the City University of New York. He served as the inaugural director of the Center for Educators and Schools at the New York Public Library and was the associate director of education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. 

He writes about Black education history and politics, most recently Black History is for Everyone (Haymarket Books, 2025), a contribution to Black Lives Matter At School: An Uprising for Educational Justice (Haymarket Books, 2020), and his debut book, The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History (NYU Press, 2022). He also has lent his voice to several audiobooks, including Wallace Shawn’s Essays and Noam Chomsky’s Hopes and Prospects. Brian serves on the board of the non-profit performing arts and education organization, Voices of a People's History.

Brian received a 2012 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship.