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Issue 36, Fall 2009

Know Your Audience, Find Your Power

"There’s nothing wrong with the way your grandparents talk,” my elementary school teachers used to say. “Standard English is different. Not better or worse. It’s just a way of talking that you need to know.”

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Autographs for Freedom

An anti-slavery poem by Harriet Beecher Stowe from 1852.

“Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thirty-five other Eminent Writers.”

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6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

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History

December 13, 2017

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Issue 61, Spring 2019

Reading Together

Illustration of several people reading books, superimposed over various houses and top of a large book.

How one group of parents created space for their children to learn, think and teach about social justice.

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August 18, 2017

Now-based Curriculum

teacher helping stressed student with computer work

Instead of discussing current events only on Tuesdays or only in response to traumatic events, let’s help students use the curriculum to understand and act against current injustices.

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Rights & Activism

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Map from “Freedom and Slavery, and the Coveted Territories”

A map of the United States with shading to indicate slave states, free states and territories, with details such as the states’ representation in Congress and their number of enslaved people.

Horace Greeley & Thomas M’Elrath

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

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History

Geography

December 14, 2017

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Issue 4, Spring 2023

Where I’m From

Lolita Bolden reflects on history and the love of community while sharing a poem.

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Judgement of the Supreme Court of the United States in Plessy v. Ferguson

In the matter of Plessy v. Ferguson, the United States Supreme Court upheld practices that perpetuated Jim Crow segregation, declaring that “separate but equal” accommodations were legal. Nearly 60 years later, the Court overturned the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

Mr. Justice Brown and Mr. Justice Harlan

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Rights & Activism

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Civics

History

March 3, 2016

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Issue 11, Spring 1997

Paddling Upstream

Catholic and Protestant youth in Northern Ireland embark on a brighter future.

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Southern Marseillaise

Likely written during or shortly after the Civil War, these song lyrics depict Southern patriotism and duty to maintaining a certain way of life. Using melodic rhymes and repetition, the author emphasizes Southern manhood, justified violence and supposedly benign slavery.

Allan D. Francis

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Slavery

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Civics

History

December 15, 2017

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Liberation Lit

These LFJ book reviews for adult readers encourage us all to keep reading and learning together for liberation.

August 28, 2024

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