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Voting is essential in any democracy. So is memory. That's why many states that enact restrictive voting rules also embrace book bans to suppress history and ideas.

Elementary students in Lee walked to school Wednesday, as they do once a month. But this time out, they carried signs, wore purple and put themselves into a history lesson

This is a moving walk through African American history, via Weatherford’s expansion of the lyrics of a well-known Negro spiritual and...

Southern Arizona African American museum to host first in-person guest, exhibits this month after launching online on Dec. 31. 

Moms for Liberty claims that teachers are indoctrinating students with dangerous ideologies. But is the group’s aim protecting kids—or scaring parents?

Academia is looking for any answer except the obvious one: anyone can be racist, duh. 

From the October 2022 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.

Ruby Bridges, Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall.

The local elections really determined things like who sits on school boards. school boards determine what kind of education your children get. they are the ones that can decide that the story of ruby bridges, for example, is too divisive to teach in the public schools. so, we think its important for people to actually have a concrete sense of what local elections are all about, what midterms are all about, i think once people see it, thats what weve been seeing. once they see whats at stake, the...

No word yet on a school segregation lawsuit demanding that New Jersey end its neighborhood assignment policy for public schools.