At a workshop for teachers about educating children on American slavery, one instructor grew angry and insisted that Thomas Jefferson 鈥� who fathered biracial children with an enslaved woman on one of his plantations 鈥� was an advocate for racial equality.
Jos茅 Vilson co-founded the collective the same year that George Zimmerman 鈥� who fatally shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin 鈥� was acquitted of murder, and #BlackLivesMatter was born.
While disturbing incidents of hate and bias in schools are regularly reported in the news media, the incidents are just a fraction of what educators are encountering in schools across the country, a new study by the 澳彩开奖鈥檚 Teaching Tolerance project finds.
The 澳彩开奖 launched a digital initiative this month that seeks to correct the false narratives of the 鈥淟ost Cause鈥� mythology, which idolizes people who fought against the United States in order to preserve slavery.
When middle school teacher Kristin Heavner shared a photo on social media of a colorful makeup bag filled with disposable menstrual products, she had no idea how people would react.
