About us
Learning, Sharing & Wearing American History
About Us
We are parents, and educators influenced by historians, psychologists, athletes, researchers, business advisors, and concerned citizens. TruthTeeTold™ unearths, resuscitates, and elevates American history through truth-telling via creative wear. Today, some people in powerful positions have advanced agendas designed to expunge, eradicate, and extinguish shameful parts of American history by entombing that past and advancing fictional narratives that deny the truth. These fabulists are diligently manufacturing a past to expunge the truth.
My Story
TruthTeeTold™ exhumes the lived experiences of those who came before. Our Tees chronicle American history, the good, the bad, and the ugly in all its glorious and complicated inclusivity. TruthTeeTold™ is about telling American history from the bottom up; it’s about shining a light on what came before and about bravely walking through the chapters that make America, America. TruthTeeTold™ embraces lessons from our past to build a more equitable future for everyone. Our beautiful, minimalist Supima cotton Tees are made in America and serve as a tangible reminder of a time when cotton was considered gold. We tell the stories of America in a unique way using the latest technologies to present history in an educational and entertaining style. We tell the history we all need to confront, including the deniers and fabulists who prioritize ignorance over truth.
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TruthTeeTold™ lights a path to discovering where we’ve been and where we’re going and the best routes for reaching a more just and equitable destination. Onward and upward!
Who Are We?
We are you. We are individuals, single, spoken for, parents, siblings, educators, neighbors, colleagues, your everyday Tanisha, Jane, John, Javier, Rosa, Yukiko, Teng, and Tyrone. Most importantly, we are social justice advocates, passionate about history, and believers in reaching back, teaching self and others, and paying it forward. In whatever we do, our aim is to challenge ourselves as we strive to inspire others to free themselves to live fully and learn maximally. We believe in uplifting the good, rather than drowning in a sea of despair and victimhood. As the late, great Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the most powerful weapon [that] you can use to change the world.”
Our Goals
Our Tees are wearable history. We begin our history learning adventure with the mindset of “Each one, Teach One.” Embedded in each tee shirt is a QR code that tells a story. We give thanks to Mr. Hara Masahiro, a Denso Wave employee who created the QR code in 1994. Today QR codes are ubiquitous and used in advertising, marketing, and tracking an assortment of useful data. We employ QR codes to tell history, specifically, American history. TruthTeeTold™ QR codes are the gateway to a wealth of knowledge, resources, and discoveries long ignored and buried by conscious omission and the deliberate erasure of truth-telling. Our minimalist preference displays only a QR code on the Tee-shirts, which precludes those institutions and spaces that prohibit clothing with lettering and bold graphics from banning wearable history. Unscanned QR codes are neutral, their content is unknown to the naked eye. The wearer can don history and share the code with curious others. Eventually, our QR codes will exist on additional items such as hoodies, hats, notebooks, and tote bags. More than an endeavor for reclaiming our erased and denied history, our wearables promote history as a necessary education and a creative approach to “saytheirnames.” Our goal is to truth-tell American history.
Wearing History
Beyond creating wearable items, we want to engage others with a passion to learn and teach American history, to contribute to this enterprise. We plan to provide essay and book review opportunities for young people to do their part in elevating and unearthing the “hidden figures” where they live. As we grow, we will have opportunities for educators to be recognized for keeping history alive in the classroom and rewarding teachers and students with incentives to advance “real” American history.