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Reconstruction 101: Progress and Backlash

Episode 4, Season 4 Just months after the Civil War ended, former Confederates had regained political footholds in Washington, D.C. In her overview of Reconstruction, Kate Masur notes how—in the face of evolving, post

September 28, 2021

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The History of Whiteness and How We Teach About Race

Historian Ed Baptist provides context on the creation and enforcement of a U.S. racial binary that endures today, as well as Black resistance as a force for political change.

September 13, 2021

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Medical Racism: A Legacy of Malpractice

Episode 13, Season 4 This nation has a long history of exploiting Black Americans in the name of medicine. A practice which began with the Founding Fathers using individual enslaved persons for gruesome experimentation

March 14, 2022

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September 30, 2019

How Inclusive Is Your Teaching About the Environment?

Several young kids gathered around a small globe, pointing at various spots.

How are you aligning the way you teach about the environment with the rest of your work as a social justice educator?

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Rights & Activism

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Connecting Slavery With the Civil Rights Movement

Episode 8, Season 3 To fully understand the United States today, we have to comprehend the central role that slavery played in our nation’s past. That legacy is also the foundation for understanding the civil rights

November 24, 2020

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Jim Crow: Yesterday and Today

Episode 1, Season 4 This season, we’re examining the century between the Civil War and the modern Civil Rights Movement to understand how systemic racism and slavery persisted and evolved after emancipation—and how Black

August 25, 2021

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Create Social and Emotional Safety Through Solidarity

In the latest LFJ article, school counseling professor Riley Drake, Ph.D., outlines a model of social and emotional learning and explains “‘feeling safe’ is contextual,” especially for Black and Brown children whose needs are often overlooked in our nation’s classrooms. Relying on community partnerships, promoting mutual aid to foster solidarity and advancing restorative justice are strategies educators and other adults can employ to increase children’s feelings of safety and well-being. These LFJ resources offer more detail.

Solidarity as Social and Emotional Safety
Black Minds Matter
Toolkit: The Foundations of Restorative Justice

January 23, 2023

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Baseball, Civil Rights and the Anderson Monarchs Barnstorming Tour

Episode 17, Season 3 In 2015, Coach Steve Bandura loaded the Anderson Monarchs, a Little League baseball team from Philadelphia, onto a 1947 Flxible Clipper Bus for a barnstorming tour back in time. Bandura and the

August 16, 2021

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Community Organizing, Youth Leadership and SNCC

Episode 13, Season 3 In this episode, we talk with movement veteran Courtland Cox about lessons from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and his own development as a young organizer of the Emmett Till

February 22, 2021

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Issue 13, Spring 1998

Don't Walk Away

The associate director of Teaching Tolerance urges us to stick with the tough conversations.

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