Using Primary Sources to Foster Difficult Dialogues 

by | Sep 16, 2023

With candidates screaming at political opponents on the television and state legislatures across the country introducing or passing laws on how teachers speak about race and racism (Schwartz 2021), students in K–12 Social Studies classrooms need effective models of...

What About Delia?

by | Sep 16, 2023

Delia Zapata Olivella, daughter, mother, sister, friend, bruja…. She was an Afro-Colombian woman born in 1926 in Santa Cruz de Lorica and lived her childhood in Cartagena, Colombia. Delia Zapata Olivella was a renowned dancer, artist, teacher, activist,...

The Black Diaspora Quilt History Project

by | Sep 16, 2023

Numerous people have acknowledged the importance of quiltmaking within the African American experience. Zora Neale Hurston, who closely examined Black vernacular cultural traditions, included references to quilts in her folklore-infused writing. Alice Walker (1973)...

Historias de Una Pandemia

by | Sep 15, 2022

  Across the United States the Covid-19 pandemic presented many challenges and intensified racial tensions and health disparities in many communities, particularly minoritized communities. This public health crisis exposed and exacerbated many of the known...

The Thomas Indian School

by | Sep 14, 2022

       This exhibition, “It’s about community, told by community, and supported by community.” —Hayden Haynes     This photo essay by Hayden Haynes is part of the culmination of a community looking at the effects and aftereffects of one Indian...