Students watch videos with Martin Luther King III and Rev. William Barber, co-founder of today’s Poor People’s Campaign, and discuss the continuing fight for economic and racial justice.
Our collection for teaching on the January 6 assault includes new lessons from our own TeachableMoment (including guidelines for elementary students) and from other sources.
Students learn about the history of policing in African American communities and connect it to the controversy over how police treated insurrectionists at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The election of Raphael Warnock to be Georgia's first Black senator was the result of decades of organizing by voting rights activists. Students discuss that history and the organizing that led to Warnock's election in 2020.
Students reflect on the state of democracy in the U.S. in light of the insurrection at the Capitol and discuss news stories about this and other events of the week.
