Teaching for Equality

Here's a list of articles I've been bookmarking for a couple of years now under the heading "Teaching for Equality." I compiled these with high school students in mind, but I'm sure they can be used for students of all ages.  

Reading Rainbow Host LeVar Burton’s New Lesson: How Not to Get Shot by the Cops - COLORLINES

Sweet honey in the rock - Ella's Song - YouTube

Man Convicted for Shooting Teenager - New York Times

Actor LeVar Burton Gives Sad Step-By-Step On How To Not Get Shot By A Cop If You're Black (Video) - Americans Against the Tea Party

Whoopi Goldberg Bleeped After Ann Coulter Tries To Tell Her About Black People - COLORLINES

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. Education | PBS

The Glorification of White Crime

How can white Americans be free? - Salon.com

Tennessee Cemetery Keeps Racism Alive Even After Death, Desecrates 'N*gger' Graves To Bury White Clients -

40 maps that explain the world

Watch As One Boy Lays Out An Experience Most White People Will Never Have To Worry About

Clerk Thwarts Gunman, 20, at Atlanta-Area School - NYTimes.com

One Easy Thing All White People Could Do That Would Make The World A Better Place

Offended by ‘Washington Redskins’? Here’s 5 Alternative Names that Will Really Get You Hot | Josh Healey

Racists Are Being Hella Racist Because Miss America Isn't White

It Gets Better, Unless You're Fat

Womanisms: No, I Will Not Celebrate "Bartolomé Day"

Chinese Factory Workers & the Toys They Make - Imgur

De-Tangling Racism: On White Women and Black Hair | The Crunk Feminist Collective

Spiritual Growing Pains. | elephant journal

The Truth Behind 'The Most Widely Misunderstood Story in America'

Black Teen Detained by NYPD for Buying an Expensive Belt

So You Call Yourself an Ally: 10 Things All 'Allies' Need to Know — Everyday Feminism

How to interact with the introverted... - The Meta Picture

Here Is What Happens When A Trailblazer Does Just That

Hunger Games and the Limits of White Imagination | Olivia Cole

Concept Map

When “Life Hacking” Is Really White Privilege — Medium

Ani DiFranco’s faux-pology: White privilege and the year in race - Salon.com

The Difference Between Cultural Exchange and Cultural Appropriation — Everyday Feminism

Unemployed Black Woman Pretends to be White, Job Offers Suddenly Skyrocket | knowledge of self

Who Gets To Be A Superhero? Race And Identity In Comics : Code Switch : NPR

Modest is hottest - body image

Here's an Ad about R--skins that its Makers Don't Have the Money to Show During Sunday's Superbowl

Why Ivy League Schools Are So Bad at Economic Diversity - Robin J. Hayes - The Atlantic

The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin, characters, setting

New Commercial Exposes The Sneaky Ways We Discourage Girls From Pursuing Science | ThinkProgress

Vine User Blasts Employees Following Him Around Stores In Best Possible Way

Transgender People Can Explain Why Women Don't Advance at Work | New Republic

He Dropped One Letter In His Name While Applying For Jobs, And The Responses Rolled In

Let's Talk About Thin Privilege — Everyday Feminism

84.02.05: The Early Greeks Contribution to Geometry

Malala Yousafzai and the White Saviour Complex | Media Diversified

I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System - The Atlantic

What medical schools need to learn to produce LGBT-friendly physicians.

How Racism Created America's Chinatowns

Photographer Haley Morris Cafiero Takes Stealthy Photos To Talk About Fat-Shaming

What Black Parents Tell Their Sons About the Police

My Vassar College Faculty ID Makes Everything OK

The Pain of the Watermelon Joke - NYTimes.com

Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt’s 9/11 | James Perloff

Parable of the Polygons - a playable post on the shape of society

A Fascinating History of the 'C Word' | Alternet

Sexism goes both ways. Feminism helps both. - Imgur

Science Explains How Unconscious Racial Bias Undermines the U.S. Justice System - Mic

» Black Abolitionists Zinn Education Project

How One Boston Neighborhood Stopped Gentrification in Its Tracks by Penn Loh — YES! Magazine

10 Signs That You May Be a White Supremacist (Who Happens to Be Black) - Atlanta Blackstar

How Black Middle-Class Kids Become Poor Adults - The Atlantic

7 Ways to Lovingly Support Your Gender Non-Binary Partner — Everyday Feminism

A Letter to My Son Jacob on His 5th Birthday - Moms - Boston.com

If Male Superheroes Were Drawn Like Female Superheroes | Technoccult

Distractify | 55 Powerful Photos Of Women Who Changed History Forever

Florence Arthaud, Celebrated Solo Sailor, Dies at 57 in Helicopter Crash - NYTimes.com

How bilingualism affects children’s beliefs

27 Black Women Activists Everyone Should Know

The Top 10 Lies Keeping Us from Eradicating Racism — Everyday Feminism

White America’s racial illiteracy: Why our national conversation is poisoned from the start - Salon.com

This Unarmed Black Woman Was Shot by the Police, So Why Aren't We Marching for Her?

I am a Christian business owner in Indiana

Sleeping after processing new info most effective, new study shows // News // Notre Dame News // University of Notre Dame

Works in Progress - NYTimes.com women artists

Telling Poor, Smart Kids That All It Takes Is Hard Work to Be as Successful as Their Wealthy Peers Is a Blatant Lie - Atlanta Blackstar

Police Criminals and the Brutalization of Black Girls - The Feminist Wire | The Feminist Wire

How To Talk To Kids About Racism In America -- With A Picture Book

Quotes About Enemies (334 quotes)

One Comic Perfectly Sums Up Class Differences in Society