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Pop Music as Critical Text
Is Beyoncé—or any pop culture icon—someone we should discuss with our students?
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Sexual Assault Awareness Month
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Use this opportunity to engage your students in upending rape culture and preventing sexual assault all year.
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Escuela de la frontera (Border School)
A small Catholic school and its students grapple with life and learning in the shadow of two nations.
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Fresh Takes
Student filmmakers promote dialogue and activism in their communities.
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How State Standards Represent Indigenous Peoples
In this Q&A blog, education researcher Kate Shuster asks Sarah Shear of Penn State University-Altoona about how indigenous history is taught in U.S. classrooms and why many states’ standards need to be revamped.
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Jimmie Lee Jackson
This essay details Jimmie Lee Jackson’s involvement in the voting rights movement and his violent death at the hands of Alabama state troopers.
March 10, 2016
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The Origins of Lynching Culture in the United States
Paula Gidding, a professor of Africana studies at Smith College, discusses the history and origins of lynching.
November 3, 2015
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The Negro's Place in World Reorganization
This essay introduces the Universal Negro Improvement Association and some of its core beliefs, such as the idea that all African-descended people should work together to achieve preservation and independce from whites at home and abroad, particularly in Africa.
July 3, 2014
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The Human Face of Immigration
Students challenge stereotypes when they see the people behind the slogans.