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An Educator Workshop With Black Children at the Center
An executive director of educational equity explains how her district planned a workshop for Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action—and how you can, too.
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Is There a #BBQBecky or #PermitPatty in Your Classroom?
The recent rash of viral stories featuring white people who call the cops on law-abiding black people is an iteration of implicit bias that happens in schools every day. It’s time for educators to self-reflect.
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Learning to Save Ourselves
When a book characterizes problematic “white savior” tropes, how can it be used to effectively question those concepts with students?
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Echoes
You can see, hear, feel, and taste the injustice, frustration, and naiveté experienced at this ladies' get together.
July 3, 2014
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Remembering Bloody Sunday
On March 7, 1965, millions of Americans sat watching their television sets in horror. Grainy black-and-white news images from Selma, Ala., showed about 600 mostly African-American protesters trying to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were marching to the state capital, Montgomery, to win voting rights in the Jim Crow South.
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Cut Your Chances of Suspension: Don’t be Black
A new study proves what many already suspected: Your chances of getting suspended in middle school rise dramatically if you are black. The study, “Suspended Education: Urban Middle Schools in Crisis,” was published by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the home of Teaching Tolerance.
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Building Black Institutions: Autonomy, Labor and HBCUs
Episode 8, Season 4 Historian Tera Hunter describes Black institution-building post-slavery and throughout the Jim Crow era, illustrating how Black workers reorganized labor to their advantage, despite virulent white
November 30, 2021
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The Freedom Riders Video Transcript
This piece is to accompany The Freedom Riders video and lesson. In 1961, the Civil Rights Movement took another strategic turn. A small group of activists, both black and white, calling themselves the Freedom Riders, decided to travel by bus through the Deep South, where segregation in bus facilities wasn’t just the custom, it was the law, and where the simple act of boarding a bus was enough to put one’s life on the line.
April 5, 2011
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Representative Lewis Discusses Reenacting Historic Bus Rides of 1961 Video Transcript
This piece is to accompany The Freedom RidersForty years ago, a dozen or so friends decided to test a new ruling that banned the forced separation of whites and blacks in interstate travel. They became known as Freedom Riders, and they paved the way for the civil rights struggle. John Lewis joined the original rides. He is now a Congressman from Georgia. Well, today they're retracing their steps from the spring of '61.
April 5, 2011