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LFJ Director Jalaya Liles Dunn contends that “The treatment of children from communities experiencing systemic oppressions—those at the intersection of race, gender, poverty and geography—will determine the fate of our democracy.”

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September 12, 2016

Teaching the Election Doesn’t Require Neutrality

This history teacher offers a strategy for teaching about the presidential election. It starts with organizing ideas into three categories: consensus, legitimately controversial and out of bounds.

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March 7, 2014

The Noose of Racism

What happens when we don’t teach about the history of racism? Turn on the news.

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Looking Closely at Ourselves

In this lesson, students explore race and self-identity by creating self-portraits. The lesson aims to help students develop detailed observational skills and use these skills in relation to themselves and others. It also begins constructing a vocabulary that is crucial in helping build community and discuss some of the more challenging aspects of race and racial identity formation.

Grade Level

3-5 6-8 9-12

Topic

Bullying & Bias

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

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September 1, 2011

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Advocating to Local and State Boards of Education

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Confronting White Privilege

Power of the Vote: Lifting the Veil of White Supremacy, From the Ocoee Massacre to January 6

Get Where You Need  to Go

The Origins of Lynching Culture in the United States

Expanding Democracy

Teaching the Election Doesn’t Require Neutrality

The Noose of Racism

Looking Closely at Ourselves

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