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After reading Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing, this teacher is doubling down on his efforts to root the study of literature and written expression in an emancipatory impulse.

How diverse is your classroom library?

Recently my family stopped at the Civil War battlefield at Vicksburg, Miss., to take a walk and soak in some history. Near the monument to Louisiana’s troops stood a young boy, about 8 or 9, with his mom and dad. The boy was dressed up as a gray-clad Confederate soldier. The combination of the outfit and the Confederate flag sticker on his family’s car told me something important about this boy. It told me that he was a lot like me at that age.

Scholar Debbie Reese talks book bans and the fear of a just society.

Alabama artists are depicting honest history and challenging historical invisibility—reshaping public narratives of justice in their communities.

The NFL prospect has the potential to redefine for millions of people what it means to be a gay man in the U.S.

School discipline and classroom management do not have to be based in compliance. Learn more about restorative practices in this companion piece to the feature article “It Was Always About Control.”

Marvin Reed celebrates what sustained him while teaching through the pandemic.