Stories
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- Issue 6, Fall 2024
Becoming a Village
This family-school-community partnerships model emphasizes a liberatory, whole-child approach and collective effort to nurturing all our children.
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- Issue 6, Fall 2024
Loving and Nurturing Young People
The author of ‘Humans Who Teach’ encourages us all to work together in a collective approach to nurturing young people’s well-being.
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- Issue 6, Fall 2024
The Heart of Facilitation in Restorative Justice
Inclusivity, understanding of power dynamics and cultural sensitivity are the heart of facilitation for effective restorative justice practices.
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- Issue 6, Fall 2024
Only Young Once: The Case for Dismantling the South’s School-to-Prison Pipeline
We must end the long-standing maltreatment and criminalization of Black children in the education system throughout the South.
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- Issue 6, Fall 2024
Inspiring Hope: A Conversation With Maud Dahme
Maud Dahme, Holocaust survivor and educator, emphasizes the importance of survivor testimony in learning from the past and uplifts our shared humanity.
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Black children in Florida face harsher school discipline, new SPLC report shows
Five years ago last month, people across the country were shocked by a video showing the arrest of Kaia Rolle in her Orlando, Florida, school. She was just 6 years old, not even 4 feet tall and weighing about 50 pounds. Her wrists – too small for metal handcuffs – had been zip-tied behind her…
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- Issue 6, Fall 2024
Dialogue Across Difference
Dialogue skills can develop foundational capacity for civic engagement and collective action to strengthen our democracy. The heart of dialogue is not in speaking to convince but rather in active listening and questioning to understand one another.
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- Issue 6, Fall 2024
The Promise of Building Bridges
The UCLA Dialogue Across Difference Initiative offers a model to foster a culture of meaningful exchange, empathy and critical thinking in education and communities.
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Hate Crimes Awareness Month: SPLC urges action to stem bias-motivated violence
Two years ago, a self-described white supremacist, wearing body armor and a military helmet, opened fire with an assault-style rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo; New York. In a matter of minutes, 10 people, all Black, were dead and three more were injured. The carnage on May 14, 2022, was not an act of random…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Alabama town stops prosecutions for late garbage bills after SPLC advocacy
In the video: Marissa Davis of Chickasaw, Alabama, talks about the frustration of having her garbage collection suspended after she fell behind on her trash and sewage bills. (Credit: Hillary Hudson) Growing up in Detroit, José Young saw firsthand how easy it was for young people to end up on the wrong side of the…









