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Child Hunger Should Concern Us All
Ensuring food security for all children is a national responsibility that should cut across political divides.
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Commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On this important anniversary, integrate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into your classroom reading instruction.
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Helping Students Engage in Civil Discourse
Emphasizing the value of civil discourse is an important step toward setting the stage for a positive school year. This edition of The Moment gathers articles and teaching resources on how to create an environment where students can discuss difficult topics in a respectful, civil way.
- Who Decides What’s “Civil”?
- Toward a More Civil Discourse
- Polarized Classrooms
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Educators’ and Students’ Rights During COVID-19
A children’s rights attorney and a policy analyst from the Southern Poverty Law Center explain educators’ rights to workplace safety, students’ rights to education access and what it might take to advocate for both.
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When Our Leaders Let Us Down
How do we talk to our students about incidents like last week’s Ralph Northam blackface photograph scandal?
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Dorothy Height: Fighting for Rights on Two Fronts
On August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington, Dorothy Height sat on the speakers’ platform and listened to Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech. She had helped organize the rally that brought about 250,000 people to the National Mall. In fact, she’d been in the forefront of the civil right struggle for decades as the president of the National Council of Negro Women.
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SPLC Salutes Students Standing up for Their Rights
As the school year draws to a close, the SPLC salutes just a few of the students this year who fought the good fight, challenging homophobia and gender discrimination in their schools. If it’s true that young people are our future, the future is looking pretty diverse, free and fabulous. We hope you are as inspired to read about them as we at the SPLC have been to work with them.
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Roxboro Students: Give Us More Mix It Up
The sixth-graders at Roxboro Middle School tumbled through the doors and into the lunchroom, looking around for places at the tables. The security officer didn’t need a bullhorn; his voice carried.
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Fighting for Voting Rights and Education
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) enabled millions of Black and other voters of color an opportunity to participate in our democracy. Ten years ago, on June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder significantly weakened a key provision of the landmark VRA. These LFJ articles remind us of the struggle for voting rights and education and the powerful legacy of Freedom Summer 1964. As we confront current voter suppression and education censorship, let us continue the fight for justice in today's movement.
- Freedom Schools for Today’s Justice Movement
- Connect Voting Rights History to Current Policies and Discourse
- Where Do We Go From Here?
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
With the news of U.S. Border Patrol officers using tear gas against asylum-seekers in Mexico—affecting, among others, small children—we are reminded of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As its 70th anniversary approaches, we invite you to introduce its depth and relevance to your students with these resources—and to remember its enduring words: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."
- Commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948