Content Licensing
All original content on Bridge the Diaspora™ — including lessons, curriculum units, biographical profiles, heritage location descriptions, and editorial curation — is protected under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. This means you are free to use the content — as long as you follow the terms below.
What You May Do
- Use lessons in K–12 and college classrooms
- Print or download content for educational purposes
- Share individual lessons or pages with students
- Link to Bridge the Diaspora from your own site or course
- Adapt or remix content for your own classroom — provided you credit us and share under the same license
- Translate content for use with non-English-speaking students
What You May Not Do
- Sell lessons, units, or any content from this platform
- Remove or alter the attribution (credit) from any content
- Republish entire units or collections as your own work
- Use content for commercial products, courses, or services
- Claim authorship of content created by Bridge the Diaspora
- Use content in ways that fall outside the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 terms
How to Attribute This Work
When sharing or adapting content from Bridge the Diaspora, please credit us using one of the formats below. This makes it easy for others to find the original source.
Plain Text (for print, slides, or documents)
"Bridge the Diaspora™: Original Educational Content" by Lela Harris is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Source: https://www.bridgethediaspora.us
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If you're unsure whether your intended use is covered, please contact us before proceeding. We're happy to discuss partnerships, institutional licensing, or custom permissions for nonprofits and educational organizations.