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From Mourning to Action
After this weekend’s shootings in El Paso and Dayton, we ask: How do educators keep tragedy and terror from overwhelming them as they fight for justice?
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Learning for Justice Webinars Are Available on Demand!
If you missed one of our webinars last year, it’s easy to get caught up. Here’s how!
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Teach This: Navajo Code Talkers, Pocahontas and Andrew Jackson
The November 27 Oval Office ceremony honoring Navajo Code Talkers included what has become a highly controversial remark by the president referencing Pocahontas. Use our discussion questions to address this current event—and the history behind it—with your students.
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This Conversation Is Anti-Racist
Young people have the vision to imagine—and create—a world without racism. Adults just need to get on board.
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Toolkit for “A Museum. A Memorial. A Message.”
This toolkit—adapted from our viewer’s guide for 'An Outrage: A Documentary Film About Lynching in the American South'—provides guidance for educators hoping to tackle this tough topic in the classroom.
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We Rest Our Case: American Slavery Is Widely Mistaught
After hearing from skeptics about our Teaching Hard History report findings, TT Director Maureen Costello came across striking new evidence that the project is necessary.
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"Nonviolence vs. Jim Crow" 1942
Bayard Rustin believed deeply in the power of nonviolence during the era of segregation. In the following essay, he describes its use and effect on a bus ride from Louisville to Nashville.
February 22, 2019
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Trump Effect: Teaching Baltimore and the Power of Place
The places we call home can play a large part in the way we see ourselves—and the way others see us. The way you talk to your students about these places matters.
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Black Visibility Matters: The Inconvenient Truths of Bias and Erasure
Racial stereotypes and myths persist only with our continuous active consent—in the stories we teach and tell, and those we don’t. And the price we pay for this is monumental.