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Our Votes Matter in All Elections

We should never take for granted our rights and our responsibilities to engage in civic action and vote in every election — local and national.

The 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) is a landmark federal law and a significant victory of the Civil Rights Movement. Enacted to remove the barriers of racist Jim Crow era policies, the VRA affirmed the right to vote for millions of African Americans. Enforcement of this law has expanded political opportunities for Black Americans and other people of color.

Our Votes Matter: Action Steps in Planning to Vote
Media Literacy Is Vital for Informed Decision-Making
Understanding Voter Suppression in Today’s Election Process

October 20, 2025

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November 15, 2017

Teaching “America’s National Crime”

Our new film and viewer’s guide offer educators the tools they need to teach honestly and effectively about lynching and the symbolic power of the noose.

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Issue 31, Spring 2007

'Gates of Change'

Students walking in front of the Little Rock Central High School

In 1957, nine black schoolchildren enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., and compelled the nation to live up to its promise of equality. Fifty years later, Central High's teachers and students revisit the past to help shape the future.

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Issue 63, Fall 2019

Black Students and Educators at Confederate-Named Schools

Illustration of an imposing confederate officer statue standing behind several students of color in a classroom.

In more than 100 U.S. schools, black educators and students see Confederate names on their walls, jerseys and diplomas. That’s a problem.

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Issue 37, Spring 2010

Unmaking Brown

Illustration of a boy being split in half, half black and half white

America’s schools are more segregated now than they were in the late 1960s.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 47, Summer 2014

Radical!

Teaching Tolerance illustration Raadical

Nine visionaries who changed the way we think about education.

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April 12, 2017

The Election Keeps Testing Educators

Many educators are hesitant to teach about national politics and the 2016 election.

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Bullying & Bias

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April 4, 2012

Dr. King’s Global Impact

When I teach lessons about Martin Luther King Jr., I always wonder exactly how students will connect with the events and themes. My adult students are refugees and immigrants from different cultural backgrounds. Some of them were cultural minorities in their countries. Others are experiencing racial discrimination for the first time in the United States.

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Immigration Rights & Activism

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November 21, 2013

Tackling Biases about HIV and AIDS

Educators need education, too, especially when it comes to supporting students with HIV and AIDS.

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Bullying & Bias

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Literature

A War on the Peaceful

This story, illustrated by Don Kilpatrick, describes a group of people who immigrated from Germany to the United States in order to seek religious asylum and practice their way of life in peace, but were met by continued persecution, which only escalated when World War I broke out.

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Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Religion

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History

Geography

January 5, 2015

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