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A novice teacher confronts the dangers of forgetting.

When my daughter pulls hard on the heavy glass doors of the Martin Luther King Jr. Laboratory School and races upstairs into her fifth-grade classroom, she is living my dream.

No matter the spelling or context, the n-word remains intertwined with American racial tensions past and present.

We rush to identify, punish and isolate the racists—like members of a University of Oklahoma fraternity—without scrutinizing racism.

The tragic loss of Michael Brown presents an opportunity to help students connect with our collective humanity.

Trace school integration from 1849 to 2007.

By distinguishing between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation, teachers can help students better understand cultural enrichment spaces.

On August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington, Dorothy Height sat on the speakers’ platform and listened to Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech. She had helped organize the rally that brought about 250,000 people to the National Mall. In fact, she’d been in the forefront of the civil right struggle for decades as the president of the National Council of Negro Women.