Classroom

Teachers join Jeremy Ney to discuss inequality in the U.S.

So, you finally put your great idea for an invention down on paper. Now what happens?

In this lesson, students will read excerpts from Rep. Justin Pearson’s speech and Frederick Douglass’s famous speech, “What To The Slave is the Fourth of July?”

Read Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech and explore themes such as the social conditions in the U.S. that led to the Civil Rights Movement

Discuss best ways to identify manipulated media such as image and video content altered for political ads

Learn how editorial choices about what goes in the camera frame influence our understanding of news and media

June 28 is the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Learn about Black trans activist Marsha P. Johnson's role at Stonewall.

Discuss the barriers to reentry that returning citizens face after time in jail or prison

In this media literacy lesson, students learn tools for verifying information online and spotting propaganda and conspiracy theories

Explore historical parallels between the aftermath of the Capitol Hill Riot and the Reconstruction period following the Civil War

Learn how many struggle after being exonerated for crimes they did not commit