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31Jul

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Children’s Museum of Art and Social Justice will Move an Art Installation to Wakandacon

By Leah Hope Tuesday, July 24, 2018 05:05PM CHICAGO (WLS) — Wakanda...

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24Apr

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Grapes Of Wrath: The Forgotten Filipinos Who Led A Farmworker Revolution

Originally posted at NPR By Lisa Morehouse Enlarge this image Filipino f...

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04Apr

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Celebrate Maya Angelou

In observance of what would have been her 90th birthday, take a moment to intr...

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26Mar

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They Push. They Protest. And Many Activists, Privately, Suffer as a Result.

Originally posted at The New York Times Written by John Eligon Ashley Yate...

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24Mar

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The Extraordinary Inclusiveness of the March for Our Lives

Originally posted at The New Yorker Written by Margaret Talbot ...

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19Mar

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The Museum World Is Having An Identity Crisis, And Firing Powerful Women Won’t Help

When the man who curated a Carl Andre show fires a woman who curated a Kerry J...

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14Mar

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Student Walkouts Have Changed American History Before. Here’s How

Originally posted at Time By Olivia B. Waxman As adults in the United States g...

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09Mar

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Using Art to Help the Police Understand Racism

Originally posted at The New York Times By John Hanc L’Merchie Frazie...

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11Feb

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How to Teach Art to Kids, According to Mark Rothko

Originally posted at Artsy By Sarah Gottesman If you’ve ever seen Mark ...

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09Feb

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Dear Activists: Your New Year’s Resolution Should Be to Throw a Better Party

Originally posted at Yes! Magazine By Jennifer Luxton Hey, activists: ...

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31Jan

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13 Books to Teach Children About Protesting and Activism

Originally posted at Geek Mom By Jackie Reeve It’s a politically charged ti...

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16Jan

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Martin Luther King Jr. Was More Radical Than We Remember

Let’s do his memory justice. Originally posted at Teen Vogue By Jenn M....

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03Jan

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It’s Non-Negotiable. We Have to Teach Social Justice in Our Schools.

Originally posted at Education Post By Zachary Wright In a recent article,...

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02Jan

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HOW AN ARTIST COLLECTIVE IN CHICAGO IS CHANGING THE STORY ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM

An interview with Ruby Pinto about a series of new exhibitions across Chicago ...

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26Dec

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CELEBRATE 40 AMAZING BLACK WOMEN WITH THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK ‘LITTLE LEADERS: BOLD WOMEN IN BLACK HISTORY’

Originally posted at Afropunk By Eye Candy After earning her MFA in film from...

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23Dec

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The Radical Work of Healing: Fania and Angela Davis on a New Kind of Civil Rights Activism

Originally posted at Yes Magazine By Sarah van Gelder Angela Davis and her si...

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21Dec

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Congrats to our own Daris Jasper on his induction to the 2018 Multicultural Leadership Academy Latino Policy Forum

The Latino Policy Forum announced the 24 community, policy, art and culture l...

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11Dec

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Your Uncle Said What? How to Talk About Social Justice With Your Family During the Holidays

Originally posted at Yes! By Wyatt Massey Finding connection and engaging fac...

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11Dec

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Youth Consent Class

Join us in an evening of teaching our youth what Consent means. We wil...

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05Dec

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‘Feed the Resistance’ Is Eater’s Cookbook of the Year

Originally posted at Eater By Daniela Galarza It’s one of the first ...

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05Dec

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Black Books Matter: Children’s Books Celebrating Black Boys

Originally posted at The Conscious Kid Photo of Line 4 Line Barbersho...

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27Nov

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Dad’s Sweet Comics Promote Empathy, Tolerance And Love

Originally posted at Huffington Post By Caroline Bologna Chris Grady draws co...

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10Nov

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Gift to fund Art and Social Justice program at Yale School of Art

Originally posted at Yale News The Yale School of Art has received an anonymou...

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08Nov

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The Diminishing Role of Art in Children’s Lives

Originally posted at The Atlantic By TRACY BROWN HAMILTON Kids have fewer opp...

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07Nov

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How to Read Aloud to Children

Originally posted at New York Times By MALIA WOLLAN Don’t infantilize. “Ta...

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06Nov

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How to Raise Creative Children

Creative children are the inventors and visionaries of the future; sci...

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01Nov

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The surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant

How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist ...

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31Oct

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The Hidden Meaning of Kids’ Shapes and Scribbles

Originally posted at The Atlantic Your child’s quirky art isn’t just cute—s...

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24Oct

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The Role Of Museums In Unmasking Society’s Inequities

Originally posted at Huffington Post By Maria Madison, ScD Whet...

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20Oct

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5 Signs You May Be Too Woke For Your Own Good

Originally posted at Huffington Post By Eraina Ferguson CLARKE SANDE...

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18Oct

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Literacy Builds Life Skills as Well as Language Skills

Originally posted at New York Times The Checkup By PERRI KLASS, M.D. OCT...

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17Oct

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How to Be a Modern Parent

Orginally posted at New York Times By Perri Klass, M.D. and Lisa Damour...

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17Oct

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17 New Authors of Color Writing Much-Needed Stories for Kid

Orignally posted at Read Brightly by Charnaie Gordon I read...

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09Oct

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JR Hosts a “Giant Picnic” Across the U.S.-Mexican Border

Originally posted on Hypebeast.com By Jack Stanley/ Oct 9, 2017 / Arts ...

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06Oct

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For Traumatized Children, An Offer Of Help From The Muppets

Originally posted on NPR.org October 6, 20176:02 AM ET ANYA KAMENETZ...

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06Oct

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5 Halloween costumes for ambitious girls

Originally posted at Rebel Girls

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04Oct

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Seeing the Future Lee Bey on conservation, preservation, and how to get fed

Originally posted at South Side Weekly BY MALVIKA JOLLY | OCTOBER 4, 2017 ...

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04Oct

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The Disturbing History of the Suburbs

Redlining: the racist housing policy from the Jim Crow era that still affects ...

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25Sep

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Chicago honors labor hero Dolores Huerta through art

By Nereida MorenoContact Reporter Originally posted at Chicago Tribune Sep...

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07Sep

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Every Child Is an Architect

Every Child Is an Architect By Katie Hurley, LCSW Child Development, Education...

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05Sep

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XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ – TAKING ON CLIMATE CHANGE WITH “WE RISE”

Originally posted on THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, aut...

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30Aug

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“Bold Disobedience” Art Show Was Curated by Chicago Teens

“Bold Disobedience” Art Show Was Curated by Chicago Teens “...

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15Aug

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Talking To Young People About Charlottesville And Race

By Carrie Shepherd, Kyra Mitchell riginally posted on WBEZ.org August 15, 2...

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14Aug

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The first thing teachers should do when school starts is talk about hatred in America. Here’s help.

By Valerie Strauss Originally posted on the Washington Post (Update: Adding mo...

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14Aug

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Why Theatre Is One Of The Most Important Tools For Social Justice

Nilaja Sun Actor, creator of Pike St. and No Child…, solo performer, tea...

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30Jul

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Agnes Gund Sells a Lichtenstein to Start Criminal Justice Fund

By ROBIN POGREBIN Originally posted at the New York Times In January, rumors...

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30Jun

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Social Justice Standards: The Teaching Tolerance Anti-bias Framework

The Social Justice Standards (formerly known as the Teaching Tolerance Anti-bi...

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30May

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Artists Amplify the Power of Protest Signs

BY ALEXXA GOTTHARDT Orginally posted at Artsy If you were strolling through ...

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15May

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10 Things You Need to Build Clever Coalitions

How to make collaboration work in a world of complex systems and exponential c...

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20Apr

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Is Political Art the Only Art That Matters Now?

The art world is going to war with Trump. If it doesn’t shoot itself in the f...

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