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Post-election Activity: “Voting in Your Town”
The election is tomorrow! Are you discussing voter registration and turnout with your students?
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The Day I Swam Into a New World
Frances dreams of swimming with her classmates, but will everyone be welcome at her new community pool?
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A Message From Our Director
TT director Maureen Costello encourages educators to raise students ready to address injustice.
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Parallels Between Mass Incarceration and Jim Crow
What are the most salient similarities between mass incarceration and Jim Crow? Mass incarceration is a system of racialized social control that, like slavery and Jim Crow before it, operates to discriminate and create a stigmatized racial group locked into an inferior position by law and custom.
October 14, 2014
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Massachusetts Body of Liberties (1641)
This document illustrates the ways in which the Massachusetts colony created a legal framework for slavery, reflecting religious and race-based reasoning.
January 4, 2018
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Totally James
James Howe, author of The Misfits and Totally Joe, discusses tolerance, diversity and the parallels between his own life and his literature.
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Teach This: Voter Registration in a Time of Pandemic and Protests
Use the video, articles, census data and original research in this discussion guide to talk with students about youth voter registration and turnout in this unprecedented election season.
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Parents Push for Student Safety
A parent-led grassroots organization in Georgia chips away at punitive school discipline policies and works to remove police from their schools.
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Belonging
Podcast host Erica Young tells of her family’s multi-generational experiences of otherness and the goals of storytelling on ‘Belonging.’
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Death of a Remarkable Woman
The newspaper article briefly describes the heroism of an enslaved woman, her emancipation, her marriage to her former enslaver and her life after he died.
December 15, 2017