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After the re-evaluation of a lesson, this teacher was able to connect with students on a much deeper level.

When you’re the only person of color in your class, school can become a struggle between two worlds.

When my daughter pulls hard on the heavy glass doors of the Martin Luther King Jr. Laboratory School and races upstairs into her fifth-grade classroom, she is living my dream.

Meet a school district that brought Black Lives Matter into the classroom—and learn how you could do it too.

A white educator shares her journey with understanding implicit racial bias in teaching.

Having trouble talking about death with students? These resources can help.

Frances dreams of swimming with her classmates, but will everyone be welcome at her new community pool?

I’m constantly struck by the memory of my first time in a jail. It was during a tour as a part of SPLC’s efforts to monitor the conditions of detention facilities. I recall being shocked at how young some of the people looked. When I stepped into the first cellblock, I muttered a prayer. In front of me stood rows and rows of black men. I was sick to my stomach; so many of them looked like they could be my cousins, uncles and other loved ones.

We are all still thinking, talking, teaching and grieving about the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old in Florida, wearing that universal hoodie. Again, as a nation, we confront the issue of race and what it means to be an African-American teenage male in this country.