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Learning About Race and Racism:  Is Discomfort Always Bad?

Leonard Moore, author of Teaching Black History to White People, due out this month, is currently a Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.  For more than two decades, he’s taught white students in the south about … Continue reading

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Black History Month: We Can Do Better

Black History Month is in full swing, for better or worse.  In a way, the fact that we have Black History Month points to a failure in how we teach and learn history.  If our curriculum was truly inclusive, we … Continue reading

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