August 17, 2021

Have You Listened to Our Three Podcasts? 

Each of our podcasts explores an aspect of a Learning for Justice topic or framework and is produced with educators in mind. Learn about digital literacy with The Mind Online, the history of American slavery and the civil rights movement with Teaching Hard History and LGBTQ history with Queer America. Listen and subscribe via Apple iTunes, Google Music, Stitcher or Spotify.

Black Male Educators Create Space for Joy // Coshandra Dillard 

It Was Always About Control // Cory Collins

“We Won’t Wear the Name” // Coshandra Dillard
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New Data on Schools Named for Confederate Leaders

The Southern Poverty Law Center recently released new data updating the number of public schools named in honor of Confederate leaders. Over 300 schools are currently listed in SPLC’s Whose Heritage? report. Educators can help teach the history behind these public fixtures—and how they spread throughout the South and beyond. Read more here.

Teach About Voting Rights and the 19th Amendment

This week is the anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. It’s important to remember that many Americans, particularly women of color, didn’t have the right to vote for years after the passage of the 19th Amendment. You can use this lesson to help disrupt oversimplified narratives of voting rights. Students will examine laws and court rulings that have affected the voting rights of millions of Americans, explore a timeline of voting rights in the United States and more. 

Videos for Teaching and Learning About Slavery

Featuring historians and scholars like Ibram X. Kendi, our Teaching Hard History Key Concept Videos examine slavery’s impact on the lives of enslaved people in what is now the United States and the nation’s development around the institution. They’ll also teach students about the revolutionary and everyday ways enslaved people resisted oppression.

Check Out What We’re Reading

“The distortions and the evasions did not kill the history. Black historians pushed back against white supremacist narratives. ... Black families, Black churches and Black schools kept stories of oppression, resistance and achievement alive.” — Montgomery Advertiser

“While Covid-19 certainly shed new light on health risks associated with substandard school conditions, the roots of the problem are much deeper. The racially biased policies and practices ... that were implemented more than 100 years ago set the stage.” — The Washington Post

“As we’re learning more about what our history is, [young people] are fortified ... and able to kind of build on that.” — The Los Angeles Times
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