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We know little about the motives of the gunman who opened fire yesterday in a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Many of us will monitor the news during the day, hoping to learn more about what the shooter thought he was doing, sure to hear more about the heroism and horror inside the building.

The country's first inhabitants are the least likely to vote in national elections. Why?

It was Black History Month. I was working with children and youth in an after-school program in the Clarksdale housing projects in Louisville, Ky. Spike Lee's film Malcolm X had just been released. I sat around a table with a group of teenagers discussing Alex Haley’s Autobiography of Malcolm X and James Cone’s Martin & Malcolm & America.

Use these ideas to include the religious and nonreligious diversity of students’ home lives in your practice.

Acts of censorship in education perpetuated by a small group with concentrated power go against the principles outlined in the United States Constitution.

The “whys” and “hows” of teaching about religious radicalism.