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Native Youth Think Globally, Act Locally
These student activists knew their community’s issues were relevant worldwide—so they made their voices heard globally.
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Presently Invisible: The Arab Plight in American Classrooms
To create more inclusive classrooms and counter negative narratives about Arab Americans, educators can include Arab American history and culture in their current curriculum. Here are some ways to do that.
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What Is Your American Flag?
Two drastically different images of the American flag have appeared in popular culture. What might they reveal about the state of race relations in the United States?
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Are You Ready to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month?
September 15 through October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month! To help you celebrate and honor Hispanic Heritage Month with your students, we’ve compiled some of our favorite resources for bringing Latinx voices to the classroom. We hope these help you uplift a diverse range of intersectional Hispanic and Latinx identities, experiences, cultures and histories.
- Unmaking “Hispanic”: Teaching the Creation of Hispanic Identity
- Latinx History Is Black History
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An Act for Prohibiting the Importation of Negroes, June 1774
With this text, the colony of Rhode Island outlawed the importation of enslaved Africans and established the immediate emancipation of enslaved people in the colony in 1774. However, the law stipulated some important exceptions that made this change particularly ineffective.
December 15, 2017
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SPLC’s ‘Whose Heritage?’ Report: A Teaching Opportunity
Across the country, schools, monuments and statues pay homage to the Confederacy. A new report can help teach the history behind these public fixtures—and how they spread throughout the South and beyond.
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Toolkit for Native Youth Think Globally, Act Locally
Do a critical reading of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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Raspberries! An American Tale of Cooperation
With only one wing, the little bird cannot fly to the raspberry patch with her brothers. As luck would have it, she meets a little dog, a chipmunk, and a frog who work together to get them all across the street to the raspberry patch.
July 2, 2014
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An American Roster: Presidents in My Class
In this fourth-grade teacher’s classroom, a long lineup of U.S. presidential faces is tacked on the wall. She reflects on how a new president will soon gaze down on her students.