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October 3, 2022

Gender-Affirming Care: What It Is and Why It's Necessary

Two students sharing a tablet screen, one pointing to something on the screen.

The willingness to learn, the active step of acknowledging and affirming LGBTQ+ students, and empathy in recognizing the difficulties for the young person help create safer spaces for trans and nonbinary children.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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Issue 3, Fall 2022

What We're Reading

Learning for Justice loves to read! Check out a few of our favorite books for diverse readers and educators!

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Issue 3, Fall 2022

End Poverty. PERIOD.

Breanna and Brooke Bennett, student activists and founders of Women in Training, explain the impetus for their work to provide free menstrual products to all menstruating students.

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Issue 3, Fall 2022

Confronting Ableism on the Way to Justice

To build a society that advances the human rights of all people requires the social justice movement to be intentional in including intersecting identities and diverse equity struggles.

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Race & Ethnicity Ability Rights & Activism

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Issue 3, Fall 2022

Prevention and Resilience: Supporting Young People Through Polarizing Times

Illustration of a person sitting in front of a computer monitor.

During this time of political and social turmoil, build networks of trusted adults to help young people understand, contextualize and counter manipulative and harmful information.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 3, Fall 2022

Centering Diverse Parents in the CRT Debate

Illustration of various adults gathered around a circular table.

Parents of color and parents of conscience, whose children make up the majority of students in public education, must be centered in conversations on race and inclusive education.

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Race & Ethnicity Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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September 6, 2022

Black Visibility Matters: The Inconvenient Truths of Bias and Erasure

A smiling young black child stands in front of board filled with scientific formulas.

Racial stereotypes and myths persist only with our continuous active consent—in the stories we teach and tell, and those we don’t. And the price we pay for this is monumental.

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Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

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Statement by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee on the War in Vietnam, Fire, Praise for SNCC Statement on Vietnam, Murdered: Sammy Younge

The text is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s official statement denouncing U.S. actions in Vietnam, plus a press release and a newspaper article on SNNC.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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9-12

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Civil Rights Movement Race & Ethnicity

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Social Studies

Civics

History

July 18, 2022

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The Freedman's Bureau!

This political cartoon from 1866 attacks Black suffrage and the Freedman’s Bureau.

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9-12

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Civil Rights Movement Slavery

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Social Studies

Civics

History

July 18, 2022

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The Chicago Plan - January 7, 1966

The press release from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on behalf of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) details the organization’s plans to end slums in Chicago.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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6-8 9-12

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Civil Rights Movement Race & Ethnicity Class

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Social Studies

Civics

History

July 18, 2022

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