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Coastal Carolina educators work to preserve Gullah culture.

“Dad, what is the Clue Clux Clan,” asked my 10-year-old son Bakary as we sat under a shade tree on Saturday in Montgomery, Ala. We were waiting to register for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s 40th anniversary celebration.“Well, it’s the Ku Klux Klan,” I told him. “Do you remember the old song that goes, “Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight?" Well, the KKK thinks only white people are precious and they try to hurt people who think differently.” “Oh, I’m glad it’s not the ‘Clue Clux Clan’ because they don’t have a clue,” he said.

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

Curriculum specialist and writer Jeff Sapp on starting a conversation in the face of pushback and ignorance.

A school district in northern Mississippi has cancelled its high school prom rather than let a lesbian student wearing a tuxedo attend with her girlfriend.

Every adult in the building needs to act when the bully is a teacher.

Answers to your toughest social justice questions.

Supporting trans and gender-fluid students requires the courage to try until you get it right.