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Humanity, Healing and Doing the Work
Honoring our collective humanity will result in an education system in which all children thrive.
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Centering Diverse Parents in the CRT Debate
Parents of color and parents of conscience, whose children make up the majority of students in public education, must be centered in conversations on race and inclusive education.
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March 14, 2018
Walkout Day
This teacher built a custom lesson plan to mark a day when thousands of students walked out of their schools in protest. Check it out—and build your own!
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The Election, One Year Later: Stories From Anthropologists of Education
In the fall of 2016 and spring of 2017, these four anthropologists observed how students and educators responded to the presidential election. This winter, they followed up to see what had changed in the last year.
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Celebrate Maya Angelou
Take a moment to introduce your students to legendary writer and activist Maya Angelou.
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The Freedman's Bureau!
This political cartoon from 1866 attacks Black suffrage and the Freedman’s Bureau.
July 18, 2022
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Music Reconstructed: Jason Moran, Jazz and the Harlem Hellfighters
Installment 1 This is a special four-part series where historian Charles L. Hughes introduces us to musicians who are exploring the sounds, songs and stories of the Jim Crow era. In this installment, jazz pianist Jason
February 24, 2022
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James Henry Gooding's Letter to Abraham Lincoln
A letter written by a free African-American Union soldier argues for equal pay for African-American soldiers.
August 17, 2018
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Dedication to “The Barbarism of Slavery” Speech
The introduction to Senator Charles Sumner’s famous anti-slavery speech, summarizing the speech’s arguments and making the case against slavery.
December 13, 2017
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A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa
In this text, Venture Smith recounted his experiences as an enslaved person in New England, including his work to pay his enslaver for his freedom in the mid-18th century.
December 15, 2017