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April 12, 2018

Youth—United! #Enough in Marshall County, Kentucky

#MarshallStrong Protest | Marshall County, Kentucky | Ryan Hermens/Associated Press

We reached out to students around the country working to keep their schools safe from gun violence. Mary Cox is a senior at Marshall County High School, where two students were killed in a school shooting in January 2018.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 6, Fall 2024

Only Young Once: The Case for Dismantling the South’s School-to-Prison Pipeline

We must end the long-standing maltreatment and criminalization of Black children in the education system throughout the South.

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Music Reconstructed: Lara Downes’ Classical Perspective on Jim Crow

Installment 4 From concertos to operas, Black composers captured the changes and challenges facing African Americans during Jim Crow. Renowned classical pianist Lara Downes is bringing new appreciation to the works of

April 26, 2022

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January 30, 2017

What Do I Say to Students About Immigration Orders?

Educators are fielding questions from students about recently issued executive orders on immigration, refugee resettlement and a U.S.-Mexico border wall. Here are some suggestions for how to best answer students.

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Immigration Bullying & Bias

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International Bill of Gender Rights

This proclamation, although written from the gender perspective, details ten human and civil rights that should be afforded to all human beings.

International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Civics

History

November 3, 2015

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Literature

Life in the Iron Mills

This short story—acclaimed as one of the earliest examples of American realism—paints a bleak picture of industrial workers' lives in the mid-1800s.

Rebecca Harding Davis

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9-12

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Class

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History

July 7, 2014

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Issue 26, Fall 2004

The Lesson I've Learned, the Lesson I Teach

This reflection accompanies the feature story " Voices of Columbine." By Kiki Leyba April 20, 1999: Reacting Fourth hour. I'm hustling to Frank's office. The principal is going to offer me — a first-year teacher — a

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 36, Fall 2009

Learning to Roar

Irma Lucena and Carmelo Vega, with their sons, Mike Vega and Alex Vega.

Parents find grassroots power.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 53, Summer 2016

‘Browder v. Gayle’

The most important civil rights case you’ve never heard of.

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Rights & Activism

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Mendez v. Westminster

Preceding the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, Mendez v. Westminster challenged the segregation of Mexican Americans in schools in Orange County, California.

Senior District Judge Paul J. McCormick

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9-12

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Civil Rights Movement Rights & Activism

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Civics

History

Geography

July 29, 2016

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