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February 28, 2022

Teaching Reconstruction Is Absolutely Necessary

Banner text: Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth about Reconstruction

Most state standards don’t accurately represent the Reconstruction era. The Zinn Education Project’s new Teach Reconstruction campaign and report highlight why truthful teaching about this period is a must.

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Slavery Rights & Activism

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Issue 1, Fall 2021

Humanity, Healing and Doing the Work

Honoring our collective humanity will result in an education system in which all children thrive.

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March 27, 2019

Hate at School: February 2019

Close up of young African-American child.

Instead of lessons about black history and culture, February brought slurs, blackface, threats and even violence at some U.S. schools.

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Religion Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

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September 28, 2018

Only a Lynching Is a Lynching

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice | Equal Justice Initiative | Photo by Lauryn Mascareñaz

We must resist language that compares the challenging of powerful men to racial terror.

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Rights & Activism

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Informational

McCarthy: Enemy of the Negro People (excerpt, p. 14)

This journal article excerpt describes how the House Un-American Activities Committee tried to undermine the Civil Rights Movement by targeting some activists as communistic sympathizers. Eslanda Goode Robeson used her testimony as a platform to speak out against American hypocrisy and injustice.

Charles Allen Jr.

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6-8 9-12

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Civil Rights Movement

July 6, 2022

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Issue 60, Fall 2018

Segregation by Design

Our national understanding of segregation is incomplete unless we face the history of residential redlining. Richard Rothstein, author of 'Color of Law,' explains why.

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Loretta J. Ross

Loretta J. Ross is a Visiting Professor of Practice in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University teaching "Reproductive Justice Theory and Practice" and "Race and Culture in the U.S." for the 2018-2019 academic year. Previously, she was a Visiting Professor at Hampshire College in Women's Studies for the 2017-2018 academic year teaching "White Supremacy in the Age of Trump." She was a co-founder and the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective from 2005-2012, a network founded in 1997 of women of color and allied organizations

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August 23, 2017

Toolkit for "What Is the 'Alt-Right'?"

Test your knowledge of “alt-right” facts, terms and influencers.

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March 11, 2019

Another Slavery Simulation: We Can and Must Do Better

A simulation of an auction during a fifth-grade lesson about slavery last week is just the latest illustration of why we need better ways to teach hard history.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 63, Fall 2019

Advice for New Social Justice Educators: "I Wish I Had Known"

Illustration of a diverse group of students being spun around on a pinwheel on a playground by a teacher of color.

The Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board shares what they’ve learned as they’ve worked for justice in schools.

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