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A look at the legacy of Dr. King's ideals.

How diverse is your classroom library?

Wearing blackface as a joke or a tribute suggests lack of understanding about the origin of this racist practice.

Sixteen pages front to back, Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story sported a 10-cent cover price and featured 1950s mainstream studio style art when it went to press in December 1957. The publication date was

It is Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. An African American woman boards a city bus downtown. She sits down in the first available seat. When white passengers begin boarding, the bus driver orders her to get up and surrender

Among my third-graders, conflicts often arose over the issue of skin color. “Your mama left you in the oven too long. You look just like a burnt cookie!” “Oh yeah, well you look like a white boy. I bet you ain’t even black.” As a young white teacher coming into a school that is about half African-American and half Latino, I knew there would be racial conflicts, but I didn’t know how they would manifest themselves. I assumed that both groups’ first concern would be the oppression and racism from white people. I was not expecting the intense criticism that I found within the African-American community of its own members.

A simple statement at the start of the academic year or semester can help students with post-traumatic stress disorder approach potentially triggering material on their own terms.

It can be difficult for gender-non-conforming students to navigate school—but there are things you can do to help.

A Florida suicide raises sobering questions about how to stop bullying.

Critical literacy can expose the assumption that whiteness is “normal” and provide students support for talking about difficult topics.