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Complexities of Complexion
By outward appearance, this writer looks white—but she doesn't see herself that way.
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A Message From Our Director
TT director Maureen Costello thinks students have one simple request: “See me.”
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Learning Hard History on the Road
Charlottesville residents took to the road this summer to learn how the past can help them construct a more just and peaceful present.
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Cheerios Expands the View of Family
General Mills recently ran an ad for Cheerios cereal featuring an interracial couple and their child. This is cause for celebration and an opportunity to help students explore race and expand media literacy. Unfortunately, not all viewers saw it that way.
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Teaching Toward Liberation With Love: Q&A With Author Jamilah Pitts
Centering liberation in the practices educators already engage with is an essential aspect to achieve a just world.
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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.
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Anti-Racist Work in Schools: Are You in it for the Long Haul?
In the wake of Black Lives Matter protests, educators and schools across the nation are planning anti-racist work. How will you ensure your school isn’t just going through the motions?
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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.