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Announcing Our Diverse Democracy Grants
We’re excited to announce that this summer, TT is funding projects that will help students become empowered voting advocates in their communities.
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Ask, Investigate and Advocate
Nefertari Yancie, Ph.D., credits her family’s commitment to asking courageous questions, seeking answers and taking action as the impetus for her career in the classroom.
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Understanding Voter Suppression in Today’s Election Process
Strategies to suppress voting continue to undermine our democracy today and have increased over the past two decades in response to political participation becoming more pluralistic.
October 11, 2024
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Literature
Hercules’ Daughter
Young Delia learns a hard lesson from her papa about what it means to be enslaved on George Washington’s plantation.
January 7, 2019
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Northwest Community Organization pamphlet, 12th Street Detroit
In response to the 1967 Detroit Race Riots (which took place during the “Long, hot summer of 1967”) the Northwest Community Organization worked to address some of the underlying issues that persisted in urban areas, like residential segregation.
July 18, 2022
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Existence Is Resistance: Supporting Student-led Social Change
As we encourage students to take action against injustice, what are we doing to support them in this work? An educator offers five practical lessons she’s learned in doing just that.
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Schools Confronting Racism and Community Pushback: Three Lessons from ‘Sounds Like Hate’
A new podcast offers valuable lessons about fighting racism in schools and communities.
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Only Young Once: Alabama’s Overreliance on School Pushout and For-Profit Youth Incarceration
[2024] This report details how a narrative of youth crime contributes to overly punitive school discipline, racial disparities, and an expensive youth legal system that is not designed for rehabilitation.
September 12, 2024
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Escuela de la frontera (Border School)
A small Catholic school and its students grapple with life and learning in the shadow of two nations.
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Portfolio Activity for “From Awareness to Action”
Young people make great political activists. How can you get them involved in fighting for issues that matter?