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Issue 59, Summer 2018

“We Are Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams”

Educator Tamara Spears with shadow in classroom

As part of our series highlighting educator voices, we spoke to five Black teachers who teach in predominately Black or all-Black settings to ask how they approach the topic of slavery.

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Dismantling Racial Caste

What is needed to end mass incarceration and permanently eliminate racial caste in the United States? Legal and policy solutions alone are not enough to dismantle racial caste because the methods of racial control within this system are “legal” and rarely appear as outwardly discriminatory. A social movement that confronts the role of race and cultivates an ethic of care must form or else a new racial caste system will emerge in the future.

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9-12

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Class Rights & Activism

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Social Studies

Civics

History

October 14, 2014

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Issue 63, Fall 2019

A Hopeful Case of Teacher Leadership and Confronting Bias in Education

Illustration of a teacher wiping down a chalkboard that features various young people filling in with color where the teacher wipes.

Two Boston teachers created a blueprint for helping educators examine bias. In doing so, they laid a foundation for change.

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Issue 13, Spring 1998

Don't Walk Away

The associate director of Teaching Tolerance urges us to stick with the tough conversations.

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July 7, 2009

From Civil Rights to Human Rights

A retrospective look at the link between civil and human rights

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Issue 45, Fall 2013

A Message From Our Director

TT director Maureen Costello looks back on the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom—and forward.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 49, Spring 2015

Hearing the Lion's Story

Illustration of a lion's face inside the trunk of a barren tree

Racial stress can silence children. Storytelling can awaken their voices.

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Spotlighting—and Quantifying—the Problem

No one knows the extent of the problem nationally. In 2018, the SPLC’s Learning for Justice project, then Teaching Tolerance, collected hundreds of news reports detailing hate in schools directed toward individuals or

April 23, 2019

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Issue 17, Spring 2000

Equality by Design

Three charter schools try new approaches to integration

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Class

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Black Students Matter

Last week, a 7-year-old black boy came home from school with a realistic-looking gunshot wound painted on his forehead—by his drama teacher. The image understandably alarmed his mother. And it reminds us of the harm educators inflict when they insist they "don't see race." We hope you'll read and share these recommendations for protecting, respecting and celebrating the identities of your black students.

Black Minds Matter
Black Lives Matter Week of Action
When Schools Cause Trauma

October 24, 2019

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