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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

The Hechinger Report

To get a sense of how students in New York feel about these changes, The Hechinger Report spoke with six public school students, representing four of the city’s five boroughs, whose heritage is Asian American or Pacific Islander. history curriculum will help Asian American students find strength within their own dual identities.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me.

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Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict

Sapiens

. ✽ Such solidarities between anthropologists and interlocutors must be cultivated “even in the face of movement and displacement,” writes anthropologist Sanjna Yechareddy from India, who has sporadic communication with Sri Lankans she spent time with in 2019. Engage these poets as they speak of their worlds, histories, and communities.