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The Gullah People Are Trying to Preserve Their Culture
This story tells the history of Gullah people in Georgia and South Carolina who continue to fight to preserve their land and culture.
February 19, 2020
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Disability Etiquette
In this article, Disability Rights and Resources outlines appropriate behavior, conversational cues, and common courtesies to internalize and enact when spending time with a person with a disability.
July 2, 2014
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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
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Culturally Responsive Curriculum at a Glance
Culturally responsive curriculum is a critical element in reversing poor academic performance in students of color.
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Follow the Stream
Schools foster a sense of belonging and achievement in the nomadic lives of migrant students.
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Slavery as a Form of Racialized Social Control
How did racial hierarchy adapt and persist after Emancipation? Throughout its history, the United States has been structured by a racial caste system. From slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration, these forms of racialized social control reinvented themselves to meet the needs of the dominant social class according to the constraints of each era.
October 13, 2014
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The Kidnapping Case: Narrative of the Seizure and Recovery of Solomon Northrup
This is an 1853 newspaper account of Solomon Northup’s experiences and the trials of those involved in his kidnapping and enslavement.
December 15, 2017
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What Is Talmud?: A Jewish tale set in medieval Germany
This story introduces the Talmud, an important book in the Jewish faith that contains the ideas and teachings from hundreds of rabbis. A father reads a story from the Talmud to his daughter and they talk about its meaning.
July 3, 2014