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Professor and author Carol Anderson explains how voter suppression remains alive and well—and how it’s hurting us all.

The Teaching Tolerance team had a confab earlier this week to plan ahead. Looking at a 2011 calendar, Sean Price, Teaching Tolerance’s managing editor, reminded me that the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War was fast approaching. Did we want to do something? My first response? Frankly, no. As a former U.S. history teacher, I suspected that the next four years will present an unending opportunity mainly for military history buffs to strut their stuff. We would, I suggested to Sean, better serve teachers by focusing on the themes that spoke to racial justice.

This true story is about the internment of a Japanese American family during World War II.

What does the rise in hate groups and hate crimes say about our American history and American democracy when all lives should matter?

Mindfulness a not only a great tool to help students focus, but it also helps educators to be more culturally responsive.

The Brown decision represents a symbol of the country we still seek to become.

The American dream discriminates on the basis of color. How do we explain that to African-American children?