As a history teacher, MrCrim3 used Black history as a way not only to educate his students but also to affirm them. He believes learning Black history saved his life — and now, through anti-racism workshops and TikToks, he wants to do the same for others
“I’m from the South Side of Chicago, West Pullman neighborhood,” Crim said. “I went to Morgan Park High School, then I went down to U of I Champaign, and I found myself at my lowest point in academics, almost flunked out after my first year.”“I never got a chance to take a Black history course,” Crim said. “It was offered in high school, but it was an elective. So I said, well, let me take it now that I have the opportunity to see what it’s like.
by a White woman at a festival who began yelling at Crim’s wife when she mistakenly picked up a beanbag for a game thinking no one was using it.Crim posted video of the incident to social media, and the woman was identified and later convicted of battery. He said the experience inspired him to use social media for anti-racism and Black history content.
“I decided to make a TikTok because I knew that’s where all my kids were, all my students were on there. And it took off,” he said. Crim’s content on TikTok ranges from stories of historical figures to contextualizing current events. Judging by his more than 375,000 followers, his content is striking a chord. Standing beside the monument to the Great Migration in Bronzeville, Crim reflected on the importance of seeing Black stories prominently depicted in American history. By making Black history more visible to all, Crim said he’s doing his part to help correct the American record.
“One of the most important things about my story is really just wanting people to understand that education is going to start with us first and foremost,” Crim said. “Implicitly, we understand that when we say ‘us’ or ‘American,’ we’re starting from a Eurocentric narrative and often times because of that, our stories are added as a footnote as opposed to being taught in conjunction because we’ve been here before this country as a nation.
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