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August 18, 2025

What Is Social Justice Education?

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Scholar and educator Lee Anne Bell explains social justice education and highlights its role in actively countering injustice and helping to build an inclusive democracy for the benefit of all.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Issue 5, Fall 2023

The Promise of Inclusive Education

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Inclusive education builds critical thinking—the intellectual tools for reflection, continuous inquiry, constructive dialogue and the possibility of changing one’s perspective—and is an essential lever for democracy.

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Supporting LGBTQ+ Rights and Inclusion

This resource page includes articles, webinars, guides, children's stories, podcasts and film on LGBTQ+ history, inclusive education practices and recommendations for being an ally.

March 25, 2024

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What Are the Values of Democracy?

The ideals of democracy are at the core of our shared values and national identity. This resource examines our democratic values as a step in understanding our politics, government and country today. Learn more with LFJ's Civics for Democracy series.

January 8, 2025

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James Baldwin vs. William F. Buckley Debate at Cambridge 1965

In 1965, James Baldwin and William F. Buckley debated the American Dream’s effect on the America Negro. The debate took place at Cambridge University, and the spectating student body proclaimed Baldwin the winner by a landslide—164 to 44.

James Baldwin

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9-12

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Class

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History

February 21, 2019

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Issue 56, Summer 2017

Walking Undocumented

Wildin Acosta will walk across the graduation stage in June—but he almost didn't make it. Read about his incredible journey and the team of student journalists and teachers who helped make it happen.

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Immigration

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Street Justice

The distrust between the Jewish community and African-American community in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in the 1990s reached an all-time high when a runaway car struck two children.

Jim Carnes

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Religion Immigration

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History

May 22, 2017

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Informational

No Promised Land

“When Mormons settled in Missouri in the 1830s, local residents found Mormon beliefs and practices not simply strange, but wrong. … The Mormons, the Missouri governor declared, must be removed—if not by expulsion, then by extermination.”

Jim Carnes

Grade Level

9-12

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Religion Rights & Activism

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Civics

History

May 22, 2017

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David McKay Wilson

David McKay Wilson, a regular contributor to the Harvard Education Letter, in 2003 traveled to India to interview workers enslaved in bonded labor in the state of Tamil Nadu. .

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Informational

Who Claims Me?

In Boston, widely regarded as the center of the abolitionist movement, black leaders called on citizens to resist the newly passed Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 in order “to make Massachusetts a battlefield in defense of liberty.”

Learning for Justice Staff

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

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Civics

History

Economics

December 6, 2017