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Resistance
Voices of the Holocaust: New York Workshop
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In this workshop, participants will explore Jewish life in pre-war North Africa, highlighting the diversity of Jewish communities across Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia and integrating stories that are often marginalized in learning about historical Jewish life and the Holocaust. This event will be held in-person.
![A teacher stands at a table and talks to two students](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-04/LosAngeles_Summit_2018_FH287153.jpg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=3TbiLQIH)
Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour (Canada)
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Experience a transformational way of teaching the Holocaust. This event will be held in-person.
![Two students are blurred in the background writing on paper. In the foreground a copy of Holocaust and Human Behavior sits on the table.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-08/2017_classroomimage_FH256806.png?h=a141e9ea&itok=4k-a9JcE)
The Pursuit of Educational Justice in Boston: A New Historical Investigation
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Virtual
Experience our new C-3 style inquiry on educational justice in Boston, which aims to widen our historical lens of the city in the 1960s and 1970s and draw connections between equity and justice in schools then and now.
![Two student listen intently to a presentation](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-02/03232018_Facing_History_Lynda_Lowery.jpg?h=4362216e&itok=2KISdjHb)
Paragraph 175 & the Origins of the Pink Triangle
Learn about Paragraph 175 and the origins of the pink triangle, now a reclaimed source of pride and remembrance in LGBTQIA+ communities.
![Marchers carrying a pink triangle with the words: 'Never Forget' at the Lesbian and Gay Pride event, London, 18th June 1994.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-06/GettyImages-1438232625.jpg?h=3fd7e85e&itok=uz7zt64N)
Red Scarf Girl Today: An Interview with Ji-li Jiang
Red Scarf Girl author Ji-li Jiang illuminates a number of key lessons that American educators and citizens can glean from the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
![A drawing of young children in China holding little red books in the air.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-08/RedScarfGirl_preview.png?h=52abab5c&itok=GXuIUI83)
Indigenous Resistance, Resilience and Resurgence: The Role of Activism
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Toronto, CA
Experience a holistic day of learning that brings together Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee stories, art, spoken word, connection to land, language rights and activism. This event will be hosted in-person.
![Quote reading "Power presents are and design works that reclaim the word’s primary associations with capitalism, state capitalism, colonialism, and neocolonial. The exhibiting artists and designers use their stirring creative practices to reposition the meaning of power as a strength grounded in respectful relationships, nonbinary worldviews, and emotional intelligence, embedded within practices of decolonization, Indigenization and other meaningful methods that decenter, Eurocentric, Western worldviews"](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2024-05/IMG_1676.jpg?h=1f8cbfdf&itok=QVBDbBIo)
The Holocaust and Jewish Communities in Wartime North Africa
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Toronto, CA
Engage with primary and secondary sources to gain insight into experiences and choices associated with the intersecting histories of the Holocaust and wartime North Africa. This event will be hosted in-person.
![Image of Moroccan Sephardi Jews in 1919.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-08/Moroccan_Sephardi_Jews_1919%20%28FH2189171%29.jpg?h=924eeb8b&itok=DyLg5r3I)
Remembering Grace Lee Boggs
The story of Chinese American activist and philosopher, Grace Lee Boggs, provides an inspiring example of the effectiveness of cross-racial organizing work between Black and Asian communities in pursuing racial justice by discovering shared stakes, committing to collective action, and nurturing ongoing resistance.
![Grace Lee Boggs.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Grace_Lee_Boggs_2012.jpeg?h=4c5c077f&itok=4q_QLFmO)
Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries on Teaching Reconstruction
Facing History shares highlights from Dr. Jeffries’ remarks during his engaging presentation concerning the significance and legacy of the Reconstruction Era.
![Square headshot of Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-05/Dr_Hasan_Kwame_Jeffries_FH2191462_squarecrop.jpg?h=569f0efd&itok=19aFckKP)
Haiti in Historical Context
Facing History shares on Haiti’s often erased and obscured, yet extraordinary history of resistance.
![A woman holds a Haitian flag and roses at a church service following the earthquake of January 24, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-04/Haiti_flag_roses.jpeg?h=199d8c1f&itok=_xeHZ3uV)
bell hooks Taught Us to Transgress
Like many people of my generation who cut their teeth on the critical insights of bell hooks, news of her passing in December unleashed a wave of reflection for me about the ways she’s impacted me as a person and public scholar. Beyond the many moments of resonance I experienced while reading her writings over the years, her impact on me is most powerfully encapsulated in an experience I had in 2008 when I met her.
![bell hooks standing on stage and speaking while holding a microphone.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-08/bellhooks.jpeg?itok=jpRETw0k)