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Making King Real for Students Today
On the anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, we encourage teachers to break through the simplistic King narrative and share his righteous anger at poverty and militarism.
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From Columbus to Charlottesville: An Urgent Call for Benevolence
This former high school history teacher now realizes that she failed her students by sticking to the subject matter and neglecting what’s most important about education. She’s worried her fellow educators might be failing too.
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Whitey on the Moon (1970)
This spoken word poem points out the irony of the government’s insistence on lavishing money on the space race while failing to fund struggling Black communities.
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Revealing Magical Powers in Reading
This year is the 50th anniversary of Roald Dahl's classic children's book James and the Giant Peach. In the story, 7-year-old orphan James Henry Trotter escapes his two rotten, abusive aunts by crawling into a giant peach, which rolls, floats and flies him to a new life of wonder and love.
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Music Reconstructed: Lara Downes’ Classical Perspective on Jim Crow
Installment 4 From concertos to operas, Black composers captured the changes and challenges facing African Americans during Jim Crow. Renowned classical pianist Lara Downes is bringing new appreciation to the works of
April 26, 2022