Learning for Justice

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Our mission is to help teachers and schools educate children and youth to be active participants in a

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United States, Alabama, Montgomery

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1991

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Jun 26, 2024	Educators and allies rally to defend the freedom to learn	WASHINGTON, June 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Educators and their allies at more than 170 sites held events to raise awareness about the threats to our democracy posed by book bans and anti-history education laws. The events included pop-up Tea...
Jun 3, 2024	Hard History Lessons: Queer teacher reveals Louisiana’s legacy, untold past	Teaching in Louisiana as a gay man feels like walking a tightrope over Bayou DeSiard’s swamp – it’s precarious, but with the right balance, it’s a mesmerizingly majestic dance. The South’s history isn’t just etched in textbooks (if that); i...
May 24, 2024	Losing the Lost Cause: Virginia should reject Confederacy, honor true history	The Shenandoah County School Board’s vote reverting the names of Honey Run Elementary School and Mountain View High School to names that honor Confederate generals shows an ignorance of American and Virginian history. The decision warrants ...
May 17, 2024	Georgia ‘teach-in’ highlights effort to transform largest Confederate monument	Of the thousands of monuments and other symbols of the “Lost Cause” scattered across public spaces in the South, one stands out as the most grandiose of all – and the most celebrated by white supremacists: the Stone Mountain Memorial carvin...
May 17, 2024	Learning for Justice helps connect “Brown” decision to education justice today	Seventy years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The 1954 decision struck down the notion of “separate but equal” within public education. It declared that school segregation violated t...
Apr 30, 2024	Report: Black girls suffer most from policing in Florida school district	When S.D. walked through the halls of her Florida high school, security guards looked at her inappropriately, gaping at her body. “I’m a female with curves,” she said, requesting anonymity. “No one touched me, no one said anything, but the ...
Apr 3, 2024	Debunking defenses of ‘Lost Cause’ mythology during Confederate Heritage Month	With some states celebrating Confederate Heritage Month in April or similar observances, it’s worth looking at some of the most common myths and claims used to justify honoring the “Lost Cause” of the Confederacy and keeping its monuments a...
Feb 26, 2024	Freedom Rider recounts his struggle for justice during the Civil Rights Movement	Charles Person, now 80 years old, is the youngest of 13 original Freedom Riders. He says that when you are working toward effecting positive change, you should “never, ever give up.” He knows what he’s talking about. Person never gives up. ...
Feb 9, 2024	A better future requires honest, open teaching of African American history	In the halls of education, I find myself not just a high school history teacher but a storyteller – a weaver of narratives that often go unheard. However, I now find myself as an American who demands that the truth continue to be taught in ...
Nov 29, 2023	Neuroscience has to grapple with a long legacy of racism if it wants to move into the future	Many parts of neuroscience research have a race problem. Black people are often excluded from studies due to the texture of their hair, receive erroneous and inaccurate readings due to the melanin content of their skin, and are severely und...
Sep 13, 2023	How We Can Honor Indigenous Values in Our Teaching Without Appropriating the Culture	I have always felt connected to Indigenous peoples. Perhaps it is because I am Mexican American and colonization is a part of my ancestry. Perhaps it is because the virtues of Mexican and Indigenous spiritualities in Texas and Minnesota, wh...
Jul 15, 2023	Students, teachers and advocates fight against censorship in Alabama schools	Jamiyah Brown and about 30 other Black students at Hillcrest High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, were excited about a Black History Month program they were planning last winter. They wanted to use dance, song and the spoken word to present ...
May 12, 2023	Buffalo Massacre: A year later, white supremacist propaganda continues to spur violence	On May 14, 2022, a gunman carried out a horrific, racist attack on the Black community, killing 10 people and wounding three others at a Tops Friendly Markets grocery store in east Buffalo, New York. The gunman left behind an online screed ...
Apr 22, 2023	‘Pivot Point’: SPLC celebrates life of minister killed during civil rights protest	The afternoon was warm and sunny on April 7, 1964, when Joanne Klunder took her two young children to the Cleveland zoo. Her husband, the Rev. Bruce Klunder, set out in the opposite direction, to protest an evil that he and his wife deeply ...
Feb 4, 2023	SPLC Statement on College Board’s Final Framework for African American Studies Course	FLORIDA – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement from Bacardi Jackson, interim deputy legal director for the Children’s Rights Practice Group, in response to the College Board’s final framework for the African...
Jan 26, 2023	Resources for Black History Month	February marks Black History Month and the Maine Department of Education is sharing a collection of resources to help educators integrate Black history into the curriculum, not only this month but on a regular basis. Resources to Support Bl...
Apr 1, 2022	The Equity Hypocrisy Of The Will Smith Academy Awards Slap Controversy. What If Amy Schumer Had Been Slapped Instead?	TOPSHOT - US actor Will Smith (R) slaps US actor Chris Rock onstage during the 94th Oscars at the ... [+] Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 27, 2022. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images) AFP v...
Feb 17, 2022	Schools Are Seeing More Hate and Bias Incidents. But Educators Are Not Helpless to Address Them.	A white art teacher in Houston uses the N-word during a classroom lesson. A high school student in Minnesota tells a Black classmate that her dark skin is ugly and that she hopes she takes her life. An Asian-American teen in California’s Sa...
Apr 20, 2021	AIRBNB, INC. Airbnb : Activism and Allyship Guide	Last year Airbnb published a guide designed by the company's Black@ employee resource group to help interested people become better allies. The guide has been updated to reflect additional references to work from activists and experts in an...
Mar 23, 2021	3 understated reasons why Asian Americans are grieving right now — and why you need to support them	I was 5 years old when I encountered racism for the first time because I was “different.” At the time, I learned that “different” meant being the only Asian girl in my class. Twenty years later, instead of getting bullied on the playground,...
Mar 18, 2021	Anti-Asian hate: Silence is not an option and allyship needs to be more than a hashtag	Another week of thinking about how the inaction of adults is impacting the future of our country, our children. Eight people were killed in Atlanta on Tuesday, March 16. Six of the victims were of Asian descent. Captain Jay Baker, a sheriff...

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FAQ about Learning for Justice

When was Learning for Justice founded?

Learning for Justice was founded in 1991.

What has the press written about Learning for Justice?

Parsers VC has collected 22 articles mentioning Learning for Justice, among them “Educators and allies rally to defend the freedom to learn” (Jun 26, 2024) and “Hard History Lessons: Queer teacher reveals Louisiana’s legacy, untold past” (Jun 3, 2024).

Is Learning for Justice still active?

Yes, Learning for Justice is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jan 8, 2025.