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Believe in Something: Nike, Kaepernick and Social Change

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Colin Kaepernick Believe in Something Ad Tweet
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language In early September 2018, it was announced that Colin Kaepernick, former N.F.L. quarterback with the San Francisco 49ers, would be prominently featured as part of Nike’s 30th anniversary “Just Do It” campaign. The campaign’s slogan “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything” is featured in the ad. Kaepernick…
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The Alt Right and White Supremacy

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On August 11 and 12, 2017, ‘Unite the Right’ convened one of the largest and most violent gatherings in the U.S. in decades that brought together white supremacist groups including the alt right, neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. The gathering’s stated goal was to save the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, because like other places in the South, there is growing controversy about the symbolism and removal of public monuments celebrating leaders of the Confederacy…
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What is the School-to-Prison Pipeline?

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In 2015, a video of a rough takedown and arrest, in which a police officer (referred to in schools as “School Resource Officer”) in a South Carolina school flips over a high school student and her desk, has brought the “School-to-Prison Pipeline” topic into the headlines. The School-to-Prison Pipeline refers to the school policies and procedures that drive many of our nation’s schoolchildren into a pathway that begins in school and ends in the criminal…
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Looking Back Reaching Forward: Exploring the Promise of Brown v. Board of Education in Contemporary Times

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Black and White Female Students Holding Hands Schoolbus Boston 1975
GRADE LEVEL: High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language, Mathematics “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” These celebrated words from the Brown v. Board of Education Majority Opinion ushered in an unprecedented era of civil rights and school restructuring in the United States. In 1954, when this…
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Civil Rights Act of 1964: 7 Ways to Commemorate the Anniversary

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 provides an opportunity to teach and learn more about the history of discrimination and racism in the United States, the struggle for civil rights, the Civil Rights Act, and the strides we have made as well as the work that remains to be done. ADL presents these seven ideas for teaching about the Civil Rights Act in your classroom. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964. The Act prohibited discrimination in…
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