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Issue 4, Spring 2023

Healing Through Restoration and Transformation

Stylized and colorful illustration of faces.

A community Freedom School model in Mississippi embraces transformative practices to strengthen relationships and disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline, illustrating the power of communities to effect change.

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September 5, 2018

Self-awareness in the Classroom

One elementary teacher explains how she helps students develop self-awareness, a key feature of social emotional learning.

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Issue 57, Fall 2017

Allowing In the Light

How one rural teacher inspired empathy with pizza, stories and an open door.

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Issue 2, Spring 2022

A Message From Our Director

An educator reads a book to several young students. Other students explore texts and one student puts a book back on a shelf.

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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Issue 27, Spring 2005

A Dream We All Can Share

How parents can teach kids that all history counts.

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April 12, 2016

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.

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Rights & Activism

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Run, Mary, Run

This spiritual illustrates the relationship between Christian allusions and resisting enslavement on a physical and spiritual level.

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6-8 9-12

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Slavery

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History

January 5, 2018

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Patty Johnson

Patty Johnson is a clinical health psychologist who enjoys creating art related to spirituality, culture, justice and other bizarre and beautiful intricacies of life. She's the author of Where the Tiger Dwells, a memoir about her very Indian Christian parents who are giddily in the process of arranging her marriage, while she becomes faint at the thought of telling them she’s having her secret American boyfriend’s baby. She has also written Essays of Night and Daylight, which includes stories on how culture and womanhood collide between two generations of an immigrant family. Patty speaks

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Social Justice-Based Community Facilitation

Behavior management grounded in social justice principles creates connections rather than divisions.

May 26, 2023

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