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Rest and Reflect, Then Let Peace and Love Be Your Guide in 2023

“So I say to you, walk with the wind, brothers and sisters, and let the spirit of peace and the power of everlasting love be your guide.” —Rep. John Lewis

James Baldwin
Yaki's Mural
The Night Before the Dream

December 26, 2022

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Education Justice

Public education is an essential common-good service and a cornerstone of democracy. This series of articles and resources can help us recognize damaging policies and practices and formulate strategies to ensure equitable public education.

May 30, 2025

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Fannie Lou Hamer’s Testimony at the 1964 Democratic Convention (Transcript)

This piece is to accompany Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and African Americans Face and Fight Obstacles to Voting.Watch the video here.When a group of African-American delegates from Mississippi demanded to be seated at the 1964 Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, the moving testimony by Fannie Lou Hamer made this former sharecropper a national spokeswoman for civil rights overnight.

October 26, 2011

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August 23, 2011

Bringing 9/11 Into the Classroom—10 Years Later

My son was a 16-year-old high school junior on 9/11/2001. He could see the twin towers burning a few miles across the harbor from his school in Staten Island, N.Y. Across the country, other students watched the images on television, either as they were happening or later, as they looped endlessly on cable news.

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Bullying & Bias

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August 31, 2016

Community Walks: A Day of Learning for Schools

Through community walks around students’ neighborhoods, educators and school staff can learn from those they teach, creating a stronger and more responsive school community.

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Immigration

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October 5, 2016

Civic Education in the Age of Clinton and Trump

For the first time in 34 years, this social studies teacher feels forced to not do his job when it comes to teaching the election.

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Issue 47, Summer 2014

Toolkit for Radical!

Learn more about the relevance and diversity of history’s radical teachers.

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January 16, 2014

Diverting the Pipeline Happens in Shifts

The Departments of Education and Justice have taken steps to help schools divert the school-to-prison pipeline. How will your school respond?

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Issue 49, Spring 2015

Hearing the Lion's Story

Illustration of a lion's face inside the trunk of a barren tree

Racial stress can silence children. Storytelling can awaken their voices.

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Issue 34, Fall 2008

Making Sense of the Senseless: The Murder of Lawrence King

On Feb. 12, 2008, 15-year-old Lawrence King was shot twice in the head in front of other students, in Oxnard, Calif. What this anti-gay hate crime teaches us.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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