Category: Narrative Justice
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White Supremacy Pyramid
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Read more: White Supremacy PyramidI want students to explore the ways that race and racism are part of all of our lives. Erin Stutelberg The Empathetic Museum. [@empatheticmuseum] (November 24, 2024). “From @everydayisjuneteenth Check their bio for further links.” [Image]. Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/empatheticmuseum/p/DCw8Y_yS-nz/
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day
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Read more: Indigenous Peoples’ DayIndigenous People’s Day was first proposed by Indigenous people at a 1977 United Nations conference to counteract anti-Indigenous discrimination, as well as the inaccurate narrative that Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas, which had been inhabited for millennia by over 600…
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The First Draft of the Constitution. The Haudenosaunee Peace Confederacy
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Read more: The First Draft of the Constitution. The Haudenosaunee Peace ConfederacyThe Iroquois Confederacy, founded by the Great Peacemaker in 1142, is the oldest living participatory democracy on earth. In 1988, the U.S. Senate paid tribute with a resolution that said, “The confederation of the original 13 colonies into…
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Juneteenth Rodeo by Sarah Bird
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Read more: Juneteenth Rodeo by Sarah BirdIn the late 1970s, as they had been doing for generations, Black communities across the region held local rodeos for the talented cowboys and cowgirls who were segregated from the mainstream circuit. It was to these vibrant community…
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The Native Histories and Cultures Education Act
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Read more: The Native Histories and Cultures Education Act“It is unacceptable that so many Americans are under and misinformed about Native peoples and their history,” Smith said in a press statement.
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What is Juneteenth?
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Read more: What is Juneteenth?At the end of the Civil War, though slavery was technically illegal in all states, it still persisted in the last bastions of the Confederacy. This was the case when Union General Gordon Granger marched his troops into…
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Charles Allis Art Museum will host “Ghosts of Segregation: America’s Continuing Struggle“
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Read more: Charles Allis Art Museum will host “Ghosts of Segregation: America’s Continuing Struggle“Beginning on July 28, Milwaukee’s Charles Allis Art Museum will host “Ghosts of Segregation: America’s Continuing Struggle,” a traveling photography exhibition that explores the lingering presence of segregation, slavery, and institutional racism hidden in everyday American architecture. Through…
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