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Analyze news of the recent announcement banning athlete protest at the Olympics to discuss protest and the power of individual voice with students.

A new study proves what many already suspected: Your chances of getting suspended in middle school rise dramatically if you are black. The study, “Suspended Education: Urban Middle Schools in Crisis,” was published by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the home of Teaching Tolerance.

How do you respond to co-workers who do not recognize their own privileges? An after-school program staff member shares her experience.

LFJ Director Jalaya Liles Dunn insists, “How we respond to this urgent moment will determine how we shape the meaning of justice.”

TT Educator Grants support social justice at the classroom, school and district levels. TT's grants manager spoke with grantee Jenny Finn about her project helping her Appalachian students explore racism and white privilege close to home.

A new curriculum explores a disturbing side of the Progressive Era.

Like the more than 22,000 students who visit the Civil Rights Memorial Center each year, Brittney Johnson loved the fountain. The 10-year-old Montgomery, Ala., native had never been to the memorial center, even though it’s just a few miles from her house. And like most visitors she was instantly drawn to the circular black granite fountain out in front. This unique piece of architecture, designed by Maya Lin, is engraved with the names of 40 civil rights martyrs. Next to it stands a wall of water that cascades transparently over Martin Luther King Jr.’s well-known paraphrase of Amos 5:24 -- We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

When you’re the only person of color in your class, school can become a struggle between two worlds.