Stories
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Permission To Learn: Cultivating Lifelong Learning in Students and Educators
Reimagining education to cultivate curiosity, questioning, dialogue and critical thinking can develop students鈥 lifelong learning disposition and capacity for meaningful participation in a democratic society.
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
How We Got Here and How We Move Forward (With Our Heads Held High)
Bold action and transformative interventions are necessary to reimagine and creae an education system that ends harm and advances justice and racial equity.
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Out of the Ashes: Building a New American Democracy
The erosion of institutions to safeguard democracy is an invitation to imagine a new democracy resilient enough to resist authoritarianism and inclusive enough to serve all.
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Reimagining Presidents Day
Presidents Day offers an opportunity to consider how U.S. presidents have used power 鈥 for good or harm 鈥 and what that means for us.
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Virginia plantation鈥檚 story focuses on the formerly enslaved, not the enslavers
Vincent Carter, 72, has lived his entire life in Gum Springs, Virginia. The town is within walking distance of George Washington鈥檚 Mount Vernon 鈥 an estate where Carter鈥檚 ancestors were enslaved 鈥 and Woodlawn, another historic plantation-turned-museum built on 2,000 acres taken from the original Mount Vernon property. 鈥淢y great-great-grandfather on my mother鈥檚 side guarded…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Black History Month marks 100 years of significant achievements and milestones
The Black historian Carter G. Woodson 鈥 who dedicated his career to the study of Black life and history 鈥 responded 100 years ago to the fact that the achievements of Black men and women were not part of our nation鈥檚 recorded history. He founded Negro History Week, a commemoration of 鈥渢he Black past.鈥 The…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Data hub works with 女优福利在线 to train public on fairness in redistricting efforts
Editor鈥檚 note: This is the fifth and final story in the 鈥淐rossing the Line鈥 series about efforts in the Deep South to redraw voting districts in a way that disenfranchises Black and Brown voters. Kate Donovan earned tenure at Rochester, New York鈥檚 St. John Fisher University in 2019. After completing her doctorate in 2013, Donovan…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Georgia still litigating effects of 2021 redistricting on communities of color
Four years after Georgia lawmakers approved new political maps, the state鈥檚 redistricting fight is still playing out in court as voters and advocates argue that the maps undermine the voting power of communities of color.
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Florida鈥檚 redistricting can weaken voting power of communities of color
Editor鈥檚 note: This is the third story in the 鈥淐rossing the Line鈥 series about efforts in the Deep South to redraw voting districts in a way that disenfranchises Black and Brown voters. Just blocks from the sprawling Florida Capitol grounds, hidden behind a tall live oak tree draped in Spanish moss, is a squat, two-story,…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Bernice King continues to carry her father鈥檚 legacy, but along her own path聽
In any setting, Bernice A. King commands attention. Whether she is on the dais or waiting in the wings, her presence and confidence exude a resolve forged during a lifetime in the spotlight. As the Southern Poverty Law Center set up video equipment for an interview with King at the end of a long day of…
