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#NoDAPL: Teaching the Value of Protest
The protests at Standing Rock offer four valuable lessons for students of all ages.
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Imagining Alternative Futures Through Futurist Pedagogy
As educators, we must push past the call to “prepare students for the future.” This approach is insufficient and ultimately hazardous.
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Breaking My Silence About 9/11 in Class
When LFJ’s manager for teaching and learning—then a fifth-grade teacher—shared his personal story about the 9/11 attacks with his students, a fascinating, in-depth conversation about narrative writing occurred.
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Mendez v. Westminster
Preceding the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, Mendez v. Westminster challenged the segregation of Mexican Americans in schools in Orange County, California.
July 29, 2016
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
In this court case, the United States Supreme Court ruled Congress' act to ban slavery in federal territories unconstitutional and determined that no person of African descent was a citizen of the United States.
June 10, 2015
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Executive Order 10730
In early September 1957, nine African-American students faced a violent mob when they attempted to enter the newly desegregated Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed this executive order on September 23, 1957 to enforce an orderly desegregation.
July 4, 2014
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I Investigate Lynchings
Undercover, Walter White investigates an African-American woman's lynching in a rural Georgia town. White uses his Southern accent to keep suspicion at bay during a conversation with a general manager, whom he believes to be the lynch-mob leader.
October 30, 2014
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Secret Audiotapes of JFK Decrying Civil Rights Violations in Birmingham
This 2005 news segment reports on a recently discovered recording from 1963, in which Kennedy responded to news of police violence against civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama.
July 2, 2014
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Taking a Closer Look at Religions Around the World
When I reflect on the incidents last week involving students who wore offensive shirts with anti-Muslim statements on them in Gainesville, Florida, I cannot help but to think of Jonathan Swift’s quote, “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” I don’t agree with Swift, though. All we have to do is observe how no local company in Gainesville, Florida would agree to print the T-shirts.
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