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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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Will We Learn from Trayvon Martin’s Death?
The empty space left by the death of a young person seems somehow larger—perhaps because we sense not only the absence of who he was, but also of who he could have become. This emptiness can engulf an entire community, even a nation, when the death is unjust.
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What We're Watching
Dim the lights and get ready to learn with these TT-approved films!
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Charles Henry Langston, Freedom Fighter
Charles Henry Langston was an early abolitionist in Ohio who risked his own safety and freedom to help another man escape slavery.
January 7, 2019
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Six Lessons from Jena
Six lessons to take from the 2006 "Jena Six" incident.
March 2, 2010
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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.
June 22, 2022