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The Power of Place
LFJ Director Jalaya Liles Dunn explains that “the victories for justice must be fought for and by ordinary people in the South together with allies from other parts of the nation.”
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The Rhetoric of Hate
An AP English class unmasks racist propaganda on the Internet.
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The Code Noir (1685)
The Code Noir shows the ways in which the French regulated their colonies using a race and religion based legal framework.
January 4, 2018
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My Identity
After growing up in foster care, Ashley, a young Native-American Caucasian woman, converts to Islam in hopes of finding structure in a life where it never existed. However, with that decision comes the risk of losing one of the few biological connections she still has.
January 12, 2018
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Student Voices: Freddy Ochoa and Corina Torres
Freddy Ochoa interviews his aunt about her experience as a first-generation immigrant to America from a Mexican family.
September 28, 2018
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Lost Friends
A young boy travels with his grandmother to place a “Lost Friends” ad searching for his uncle who was sold by his enslaver and separated from his family before the Civil War.
February 19, 2020
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Our Countrymen in Chains
This is an antislavery poem by John Greenleaf Whittier on a broadside with an accompanying woodcut image.
December 15, 2017
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What It Means To Learn for Justice
LFJ Director Jalaya Liles Dunn emphasizes that “We increase our power to foster change when we are in community with one another – deliberating, deciding and taking action.”
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"We Don't Use That Language Anymore"
A leadership program helps Maine students confront the culture of verbal abuse.