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Standing For a GSA Took Courage
Why Can’t We Be (Digital) Friends?
Anti-racist Decarceration Begins With School Discipline Reform
The systemic devaluation of Black people that originated during slavery continues today in punitive practices that disproportionately push Black children and other children of color out of schools and into the criminal legal system. To ensure equitable education for all youth, educators and communities must play a role in decarceration, which begins with school discipline reform.
- From Slavery to School Discipline
- Toolkit: The Foundations of Restorative Justice
- Criminalizing Blackness: Prisons, Police and Jim Crow
More Than a Name: Teaching Historic Firsts

Teaching Reconstruction Is Absolutely Necessary

Acknowledging the Inconvenient Truths of Bias and Erasure
Analyzing whose perspective is centered and whose is erased in significant conversations and spheres of influence paints a clear picture—an inconvenient truth— about the pervasiveness of systemic racism. And it’s particularly important that Black children see themselves represented in these narratives—especially in those spaces where Black people are intentionally rendered invisible. These LFJ resources highlight what’s at stake in the choices we make.
- Black Visibility Matters: The Inconvenient Truths of Bias and Erasure
- It Has Stayed With Me
- Use the Tools of Science to Recognize Inequity in Science
Celebrating Juneteenth
Juneteenth, celebrated June 19, marks the day enslaved Texans learned they were free in June of 1865. While the history of the holiday includes the injustice of enslavement, Juneteenth should also be understood in the context of Black people’s fight for justice and freedom. As Staff Writer Coshandra Dillard notes, “Students, particularly Black students, can find empowerment in the jubilant celebrations of culture, activism and the humanity of a people.”
- Teaching Juneteenth
- Happy Juneteenth!
- What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?