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Music Reconstructed: Adia Victoria and the Landscape of the Blues

Installment 3 When we consider the trauma of white supremacy during the Jim Crow era—what writer Ralph Ellison describes as “the brutal experience”—it’s important to understand the resilience and joy that sustained Black

April 12, 2022

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Issue 3, Fall 2022

Centering Diverse Parents in the CRT Debate

Illustration of various adults gathered around a circular table.

Parents of color and parents of conscience, whose children make up the majority of students in public education, must be centered in conversations on race and inclusive education.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Sonia Nieto

Sonia Nieto is Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy, and Culture, School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Starting as a teacher at P.S. 25 in the Bronx (the first fully bilingual school in the Northeast) Nieto has taught students at all levels from elementary grades through graduate school, and she continues to speak and write on multicultural education, teacher preparation, and the education of Latinos and other culturally and linguistically diverse student populations. Her book Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education, is widely used in

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Informational

Thomas H.

Thomas was born into slavery and lived a harsh life, but he was finally able to escape and reunite with his family.

Lauryn Mascareñaz

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3-5 6-8

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Slavery

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History

January 8, 2019

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Literature

Death or Liberty

One stormy night Gabriel Prosser visits Rachel’s house to ask her mother to sew a flag for his rebellion.

Jarah Botello

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3-5

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Slavery

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History

February 19, 2020

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Issue 60, Fall 2018

A Museum. A Memorial. A Message.

Looking up at part of the Lynching Memorial

Montgomery, Alabama, is home to two new attractions focused on the history of racial terror. Share the lessons of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice with your students.

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Multimedia

Curbing floods and restoring a sense of community

“English Avenue, an historic African-American neighborhood with an illustrious past, sits at the bottom of Atlanta’s water runoff. Blighted by regular flooding, mass vacancies, unemployment, and impoverishment, English Avenue finds hope in a home-grown response from its youth. Longtime resident MacKenzie Bass — along with fellow members of Street Smart — helped construct a park that curbs the excess water, creates a gathering place, and seeks to reclaim English Avenue’s identity.”

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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6-8

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Class Rights & Activism

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History

Geography

June 26, 2019

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Music Reconstructed: Lara Downes’ Classical Perspective on Jim Crow

Installment 4 From concertos to operas, Black composers captured the changes and challenges facing African Americans during Jim Crow. Renowned classical pianist Lara Downes is bringing new appreciation to the works of

April 26, 2022

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August 16, 2018

How Can We Build Anti-Racist White Educators?

Group of teachers in discussion and seated in a circle

One teacher reflects on what he and other white educators need to understand as they work to build anti-racist practices and identities.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 59, Summer 2018

Be Your Own Historian

W.E.B. Dubois, Blanche Bruce, Frederick Douglas and Hiram Rhodes Revels

Dr. Timothy McCarthy talks through the history of Reconstruction and why it’s more important than ever to get it right.

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