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  • “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” - Robert Frost. Find five resources to help you weave poetry into your lesson plans during National Poetry Month in April.
    Use Poetry Today
  • “The biggest roadblock to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance.” - John Prendergast. For Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month, introduce this difficult but important topic into your classroom with these four resources.
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  • April is the 100 year anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Our improved Resource Collection makes it easy to help students connect how this brutal history shaped our understanding of genocide.
    Explore the Resource Collection
  • The votes are in! Shireen’s essay and Arvaughn’s spoken word poem blew us and YOU away! Check out the two winners of our Facing History Together Student & Alumni Upstander Scholarship Contest.
    Meet the winners
  • Can Music be an Agent of Change? Our four-part “Sounds of Change” blog series explores how the the lyrical sounds of soul music intertwined with the complex social changes of the 1950s and 60s.
    Read and Listen

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  • 20
    Monday
    April, 2015
    Chicago
    Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior
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  • 20
    Monday
    April, 2015
    Denver
    Choices Matter: A Community Conversation with John Amaechi
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  • 4
    Monday
    May, 2015
    Miami
    A Conversation with Dr. Terrence Roberts
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