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Let Día de los Muertos Stand on Its Own
This holiday, which is distinctly different from Halloween, presents a wonderful opportunity to foster empathy among students.
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Celebrating Freedom Means Celebrating Defiance
Given the controversy around kneeling during the national anthem, studying and discussing two landmark Supreme Court cases can provide students with examples of an oppressed group of people who defied authority and won.
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Against the Current
Native American activists use civil disobedience and consensus-building to resolve an old dispute over natural resources.
August 7, 2017
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One Survivor Remembers
This Oscar-winning documentary presents Gerda Weissmann Klein’s account of surviving the Holocaust as a child. (Available for streaming only)
June 29, 2017
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Extreme Prejudice
Join us and our friends from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding for this one-hour webinar, and learn try-tomorrow strategies that can help you teach about extremism accurately, responsibly and safely.
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Using the 'Diary of Anne Frank' to Amplify Students' Voices
Join Learning for Justice and the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam to learn how to incorporate the Diary of Anne Frank into discussions on identity, exclusion and persecution.
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Street Justice
The distrust between the Jewish community and African-American community in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in the 1990s reached an all-time high when a runaway car struck two children.
May 22, 2017
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No Promised Land
“When Mormons settled in Missouri in the 1830s, local residents found Mormon beliefs and practices not simply strange, but wrong. … The Mormons, the Missouri governor declared, must be removed—if not by expulsion, then by extermination.”
May 22, 2017
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In the City of Brotherly Love
“The Irish and the English share a long legacy of conflict.” And this conflict extended across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World as a wave of Catholic immigrants arrived in the United States in the 1820s.
May 22, 2017
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SWOOSH!
In this story, Hani faces the decision of removing her hijab in order to play in a basketball tournament or sitting on the bench and watching the game. With the support of her teammates, she stands up to injustice and makes an important decision.
May 19, 2017