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The author of The New Jim Crow talks with TT.

Through his experience at a poetry festival, one teacher realized how daily poetry readings could offer students a glimpse into a variety of experiences.

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is my favorite book to teach. It’s the reason I became a high school English teacher. Years ago when my teacher handed me that book, I was both engrossed and frightened to learn of a dystopian world in which books were not only illegal, they were burned.

Meet Becca Valdez, a media specialist whose library is a welcoming activity "hub" for the entire school.

My students are too young to remember the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Just four years before their birth, they refer to them as something from “back in the day.”But the themes of police brutality, poverty and racism are all too familiar. And most drew an immediate connection between the Rodney King verdict that sparked those riots and the 2009 fatal shooting of Oscar Grant. Grant was shot in the back by Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle less than one mile from our school in Oakland.

The story of Emmett Till, in part, represents a fight against erasure and mistruths. Recently, a group of students joined that fight.

Misinformation and online hate are crisis-level threats to democracy and liberation movements. Digital literacy education must be among the solutions.