Educator Resources »
Darfur Now
Learn about the progress that has been made on behalf of the people of
Darfur and the work that remains to be done to restore peace and
justice to the region.
On Our Watch Frontline
Darfur Video Clips
Spotlight
Read about the band whose music encourages listeners to participate in “building up the good in the world.”
Singing for Human Rights: Bingo Fridays
Facing Today »
Turkey Spends Millions to Cover Up Armenian Genocide
The Southern Poverty Law Center released a report documenting Turkey's efforts to deny their role in the deaths of over one million Armenians during World War I.
Facing Today helps educators connect history to current issues in our world today through the lens of universal themes including identity, membership, judgment, and participation.
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Events »
Throughout the Summer
Week-Long Seminars
United States, Canada and the United Kingdom
November 20, 2008
Hope, Critique, and Possibility: Universal Rights in Societies of Difference
Cambridge, MA
Featured Publication »
The Jews of PolandThis resource book considers the ways Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors in Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe responded to questions of identity, membership, and difference at various times in their shared history.
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Projections
Eighteen students from various New England high schools spent the day in Washington, D.C., to take action on the situation in the Darfur region of Sudan. To encourage others to act, the students worked together to create a powerful and thought-provoking multimedia project, entitled "Projections".
Classroom Stories »
A Democracy Classroom
Jocelyn Stanton teaches Humanities at Boston International High School in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Here she reflects about a transformative moment with one of the students in her Humanities 4 class of juniors and seniors.
Profiles »
Dr. Terrence Roberts of the Little Rock Nine
"I want us to think seriously about living in a society where some people are privileged but others are not, and we take it as a matter of course that this is the way it is."
