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January 29, 2020

Black History Month: Teaching the Complete History

Illustration featuring the likenesses of Bayard Rustin, Angela Davis, Sojourner Truth, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, Frederick Douglass and silhouettes of protesters and activists.

Go beyond trauma and struggle to examine the liberation, civic engagement, creativity and intersecting identities of Black people during Black History Month.

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Rights & Activism

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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” was a speech given by abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, N.Y., at an event commemorating American independence.

Frederick Douglass

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9-12

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Slavery

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History

July 3, 2014

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Issue 36, Fall 2009

Pushed Out

Teaching Tolerance illustration with student at a higher point. seeing from behind

Zero tolerance policies were supposed to end school violence. Instead, they’re pushing students out of school and into the justice system — and children of color are paying the highest price.

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Joi Miner has been writing for as long as she can remember, but began her career as a spoken word artist. After making it to the finals in the Turner South “My South Speaks” competition, she appeared in a commercial and won slams at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Green Mill in Chicago. Miner has four poetry collections under her belt: Graffitied Gypsy (2003), Fun House Mirrors (2005), Socioanthropologicfeminisms (2010) and Outrun The Night (2012). (Hear her read “ The Day I Swam Into a New World,” Teaching Tolerance’s first-ever audio Story Corner.)A domestic violence and sexual

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Issue 18, Fall 2000

Welcome to Park Day School

A Bay Area teacher shares her independent school's commitment to community.

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Bullying & Bias

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No Promised Land

“When Mormons settled in Missouri in the 1830s, local residents found Mormon beliefs and practices not simply strange, but wrong. … The Mormons, the Missouri governor declared, must be removed—if not by expulsion, then by extermination.”

Jim Carnes

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9-12

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Religion Rights & Activism

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Civics

History

May 22, 2017

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August 17, 2018

Loc’d Out: How Thoughtless Dress Codes Can Harm Students From Day One

A boy, his face covered by his hair and hand, is pictured outside in snowy weather

Culturally insensitive policies that force students to hide their identities defy the mission of establishing an inclusive learning environment.

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Issue 64, Spring 2020

Ending Curriculum Violence

Illustration of several school children holding a stalk of cotton with the student of color in the center looking defeated and hurt.

Yes, curriculum can be violent—whether you intend it or not. Here’s what it looks like and how you can avoid it.

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Freedom To Read, Freedom To Learn

These resources can help you learn, teach and advocate for education justice and a more inclusive, multiracial democracy that rejects book bans and resists hate.

April 28, 2023

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Issue 21, Spring 2002

Hot Off the Presses!

Student journalists cover the front lines of social change.

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Rights & Activism

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