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Issue 43, Spring 2013

Religion in the Locker Room

Teaching Tolerance illustration of Coach with clerical collar inside a locker room

What happens when coaches get church-state separation wrong?

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Religion

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August 21, 2019

Talk About Mental Illness Year-round—Not Just After a Mass Shooting

African-American student raising their hand in class, seen from behind.

The days and weeks following a national tragedy shouldn’t be the only times we talk about mental health with students.

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Not Just a Joke: Understanding & Preventing Gender- & Sexuality-Based Bigotry

This report helps readers identify warning signs that a young person has become susceptible to hateful, male-supremacist ideologies, best practices for responding, and ways to build resilience against manipulation.

December 18, 2024

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Appendix A

The LGBTQ Library Books and Films for You and Your Classroom This list of books and films—with options for students of all ages and reading levels—offers a good starting place for educators who need to diversify their

November 6, 2018

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June 18, 2019

Hate at School: May 2019

Female student with her knees pulled up, looking pensive.

Racist yearbook photos and “promposals” gone wrong are among this month’s hate incidents that marked the end of the school year.

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January 29, 2020

Black History Month: Teaching the Complete History

Illustration featuring the likenesses of Bayard Rustin, Angela Davis, Sojourner Truth, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, Frederick Douglass and silhouettes of protesters and activists.

Go beyond trauma and struggle to examine the liberation, civic engagement, creativity and intersecting identities of Black people during Black History Month.

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Rights & Activism

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Joi Miner

Joi Miner has been writing for as long as she can remember, but began her career as a spoken word artist. After making it to the finals in the Turner South “My South Speaks” competition, she appeared in a commercial and won slams at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Green Mill in Chicago. Miner has four poetry collections under her belt: Graffitied Gypsy (2003), Fun House Mirrors (2005), Socioanthropologicfeminisms (2010) and Outrun The Night (2012). (Hear her read “ The Day I Swam Into a New World,” Teaching Tolerance’s first-ever audio Story Corner.)A domestic violence and sexual

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Issue 18, Fall 2000