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A Message From Our Director
LFJ Director Jalaya Liles Dunn emphasizes that “Teaching an honest history counters a prevailing narrative that denies the real origins of this country and maintains an unjust society.”
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Music Reconstructed: Adia Victoria and the Landscape of the Blues
Installment 3 When we consider the trauma of white supremacy during the Jim Crow era—what writer Ralph Ellison describes as “the brutal experience”—it’s important to understand the resilience and joy that sustained Black
April 12, 2022
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Wade in the Water
In this poem, Smith recounts her experience at a Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters’ show and the love she, and every other audience member, was shown.
February 21, 2019
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Producing Digital Information
This lesson focuses on what it means to produce digital content and share information using online platforms.
September 25, 2017
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‘Plyler v. Doe’: All Students Deserve an Education
June 15 marks the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Plyler v. Doe. The court ruled in 1982 that schools could not deny students a public education based on their citizenship status. Use these resources, including SPLC’s new guide and pamphlets for advocating for immigrant students and emerging English speakers, to ensure your school is doing right by students and families.
- Protecting Immigrant Students’ Rights
- School as Sanctuary
- Toolkit for "The School-to-Deportation Pipeline"
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Counter Censorship Efforts by Uplifting BLM at School
The annual National Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action for 2023 is February 6-10. The guiding principles behind this event can be an important frame through which to reimagine more liberatory educational spaces for Black children and—as these LFJ resources indicate—for all children. This Black History Month, be intentional in countering censorship efforts.
- Black Lives Matter Week of Action
- Bringing Black Lives Matter Into the Classroom | Part II
- Black Visibility Matters: The Inconvenient Truths of Bias and Erasure
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Art as Resistance, Part 2
In this second blog of a two-part series, a high school English teacher in the Dominican Republic explains how her students’ exploration of social injustices materialized in an action project that no one involved will ever forget.