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We Are Once Again Reeling From Grief and Outrage
As we grieve with Uvalde, Texas, let’s commit to a renewed fight for change.
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Life After Diversity Training
When the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights mandated diversity trainings for this school district, everyone pulled together to make some serious changes for the better.
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Fourth graders and the 14th Amendment
Reading the U.S. Constitution prompts students to consider equality issues in their own lives.
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Stitching together the social fabric for young mothers in Appalachia
Carrol Layfield manages a quilting group of older women from Ritchie County, West Virginia, who used to work in the area’s garment industry. Using techniques handed down over generations, the women piece together quilts from remnants of fabric from shuttered factories. Kayla Turk is a young mother of two children who returned home to Ritchie County to live with her parents when her husband was laid off. At a communal baby shower, Kayla receives a quilt from the older women, and discovers a network of support.
June 27, 2019
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Speaking Up Against Racism Around the Coronavirus
The coronavirus became racialized, so it’s critical that educators understand the historical context and confront racist tropes and xenophobia from students and colleagues.
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Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System
Racialized social control has adapted to race-neutral social and political norms in the form of mass incarceration. Criminalization stands in as a proxy for overt racism by limiting the rights and freedoms of a racially defined undercaste.
October 13, 2014
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Classroom Activists: How Service-Learning Challenges Prejudice
This interview with teacher Lisa Weinbaum accompanies her Teaching Tolerance article "'At Risk' of Greatness."
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Leading Conversations After Crisis
Our advisory board shared ideas for starting discussions the day after the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Map from “Freedom and Slavery, and the Coveted Territories”
A map of the United States with shading to indicate slave states, free states and territories, with details such as the states’ representation in Congress and their number of enslaved people.
December 14, 2017