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Issue 25, Spring 2004

Raise the Bar

Teaching Tolerance illustration with man opening metal bars

A juvenile facility in Detroit focuses on development, not detention.

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Issue 54, Fall 2016

Rock the Vote

The organization clearly has great brand recognition, but what does it really mean to “Rock the Vote”?

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Rights & Activism

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Informational

Excerpt from Twelve Years a Slave

This section illustrates the ways in which enslaved people resisted enslavement in overt and more subtle ways.

Solomon Northup

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

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History

January 5, 2018

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April 12, 2018

Youth—United! #Enough in Marshall County, Kentucky

#MarshallStrong Protest | Marshall County, Kentucky | Ryan Hermens/Associated Press

We reached out to students around the country working to keep their schools safe from gun violence. Mary Cox is a senior at Marshall County High School, where two students were killed in a school shooting in January 2018.

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Rights & Activism

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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself: Chapter 10

A chapter from the autobiography of Henry Bibb, a well-known black activist who had escaped from slavery. This text contains descriptions of the life of enslaved persons as well as illustrations.

Henry Bibb

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Slavery

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History

December 14, 2017

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Informational

The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial

In this text, Judge Samuel Sewall of Massachusetts Bay refuted four arguments supporting slavery, utilizing the Bible in his religious argument against enslavement of Africans.

Samuel Sewall

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

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Civics

History

Economics

December 15, 2017

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July 31, 2018

The Religious Liberty Task Force Is More Sword Than Shield

Jeff Sessions the Attorney General of the United States of America at the Department of Justice

On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the creation of a task force that—in the name of “religious liberty”—threatens to systemically oppress LGBTQ students. The time for educators to demonstrate their allyship is now.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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May 24, 2018

A Teacher’s Plea to America

One teacher reflects on what it means for students to go to school every day after Columbine, Sandy Hook, Parkland and Santa Fe.

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Rights & Activism

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March 10, 2020

‘Selma Online’: Young People Impact the Vote

Photograph of protesters in Selma, Alabama, in the 1960s.

Use ‘Selma Online’ to help students build decision-making, leadership, activism and civic engagement skills at their own pace.

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Rights & Activism

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Maggie Messitt

Maggie Messitt is an American writer and editor focused on narrative and immersion journalism in middle America & southern Africa. She lived in rural Africa for more than six years and split her life between two continents for two more. She returned to the US as a full-time resident in early 2011. Maggie currently resides in Athens, OH, where she's a doctoral fellow in Creative Writing at Ohio University. When she's not teaching or working on her next manuscript, she continues to write/report for regional and national publications. Maggie lived in Limpopo, South Africa, from 2003-2011 (6yrs

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