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Carol Anderson on Voter Suppression: A Q&A with the Author of ‘One Person, No Vote’
Professor and author Carol Anderson explains how voter suppression remains alive and well—and how it’s hurting us all.
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The Burden of Critical Active Conscience
This educator calls on all educators to commit to making schools—at all levels—critical active conscience spaces that center people long denied space, voice and freedom.
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I Didn't Know There Were Cities in Africa: Challenging Children's-and Adult's-Misperceptions about the African Continent
In her article, Randolph delineates the profound impact of perpetuating stereotypical representations of Africa and its people by arranging them into three levels and then providing recommendations for how to combat them when creating learning experiences for students in the United States.
September 28, 2018
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Center Survivors: A Resource for Families and Educators in Responding to Sexual Violence
When a young person experiences sexual assault, a survivor-centered approach—from parents, caregivers, educators and everyone involved in the survivor’s life—is essential.
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Putting Governor Ralph Northam's Blackface Controversy in Perspective
When racist incidents occur, students often need historical perspective to understand the depth of the offense. That's why our Teaching Hard History framework is so important, and that's why we're offering this edition of The Moment. Your students may have questions about the governor of Virginia's admission that he once dressed in blackface.
- When Our Leaders Let Us Down
- We’ve Got Egg on Our Blackface
- “Playing Black” for Laughs
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What We're Reading
Teaching Tolerance loves to read! Check out a few of our favorite books for diverse readers and educators.
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Beyond the “Master Narrative”
Episode 2, Season 3 Students don’t enter our classrooms as blank slates. When it comes to the civil rights movement, we often have to help our students unlearn what they think they know while we’re teaching them what
August 21, 2020
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Combating Online Youth Radicalization
Learning for Justice and cohosts from SPLC’s Intelligence Project and American University’s Polarization and Extremism Research Innovation Lab (PERIL) present a webinar on combating the radicalization of young people online.
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Diverse Perspectives Matter: Centering Diversity, Power and Care
“The reality of racism must be honestly confronted for our society to build a more equitable future for all children.” —Ivory A. Toldson, Ph.D.
- Centering Diverse Parents in the CRT Debate
- Power of the Vote: Lifting the Veil of White Supremacy, From the Ocoee Massacre to January 6
- A Care Plan for Honest History and Difficult Conversations
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Confronting Ableism on the Way to Justice
“Listening to the perspectives of those with lived experience is key to understanding that disability is not a problem to solve but part of the total human experience to embrace.” —Keith Jones
So how can we improve disability inclusion in social justice and overcome ableism? Jones explains, “As our movement seeks anti-racist legal reform, access to economic sustainability and employment, quality education, reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, we must include people with disabilities—who cut across all intersecting demographics. And we must be intentional in that inclusion.”
- Confronting Ableism on the Way to Justice
- Beautiful Differences
- Audre Lorde