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From Awareness to Action
Young people make great political activists. How can you get them involved in fighting for issues that matter?
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MLK Dream Update
This political cartoon by Pat Bagley illustrates how income inequality can be viewed as the next chapter of Martin Luther King’s struggle.
September 3, 2015
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Paragraph 175
The German Reichstag passed the following version of Paragraph 175, which imposed harsher legal restrictions and penalties on sexual activity between men, in 1935. With this law came a dramatic increase in the number of individuals facing prosecution for homosexual activity.
July 2, 2014
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Looking Closely at Ourselves
In this lesson, students explore race and self-identity by creating self-portraits. The lesson aims to help students develop detailed observational skills and use these skills in relation to themselves and others. It also begins constructing a vocabulary that is crucial in helping build community and discuss some of the more challenging aspects of race and racial identity formation.
September 1, 2011
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Teaching Hard History Podcast
Learning for Justice is relaunching the Teaching Hard History podcast series with host Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., to resist current efforts to erase and alter our nation’s history.
- Teaching Hard History Podcast Series
- Slavery and the Civil War, Part 1
- Teaching Hard History: American Slavery |Key Concepts Videos
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BROWN V. BOARD: The United States, Circa 1954
The state of the union when the Brown decision came down.
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A Refuge for LGBTQ+ Young People
Student-run Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) clubs are a federally protected space for young people to survive and thrive in the increasingly hostile anti-LGBTQ+ climate in schools and across the country.
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What We’re Reading This Week: December 30
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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Toolkit for “The School-to-Prison Pipeline”
The school-to-prison pipeline represents an intersection of complex issues, including race, class, education and the American justice system. Learn more by exploring the following research. Bibliography Bureau of Justice
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What We're Watching
Dim the lights and get ready to learn with these LFJ-approved films!