Human Rights Education
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Speak Truth to Power Video Contest Premieres at Tribeca Film Festival
RFK Human Rights partnered with the Tribeca Film Festival to debut the works of four student finalists from its Speak Truth to Power video contest.
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New Trans Rights Lesson Plan for Teachers
The free classroom resource, produced in honor of Transgender Day of Visibility, equips and engages students to become better allies of the LGBTQ community.
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Introducing New Speak Truth to Power Spoken Word Contest
Tags Share For a decade, students have been advocating for and defending human rights through our video and songwriting contests. This year, we are expanding our arts-focused programs to include a spoken word contest, providing an additional avenue for middle and high school students to engage in defending human rights and our democracy, and to…
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Statement on the Passing of Sister Dianna Ortiz
Tags Share Sister Dianna Ortiz was a courageous activist, a truth teller, a woman of deep and abiding faith, and my dear friend. I came to know Sister Dianna in the early 1990s, and was immediately struck by her raw honesty and capacity to articulate the agony she suffered when she was kidnapped, raped, and…
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The Urgent Need for Civics Education
Tags Share If there was ever a time for a gut-check for America, this is it. A country torn at the seams into factions of progressive reform vs. status quo, Republican and Democrat, vindicated winners and sore, angry losers. A country still unable, 52 years after the death of Martin Luther King, to confront its…
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Buffalo Schools Take Important Step Toward Equity
Tags Share Amidst a year of near constant setbacks and disappointments due to a worldwide pandemic, we are heartened to see the proactive steps toward educational equity being taken by Buffalo Public Schools. Today’s forum with anti-racist scholar Ibram X. Kendi is far from an isolated event. The district’s Office of Culturally & Linguistically Responsive…
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Zoel Boublil Joins Speak Truth to Power Youth Advisory Board
Tags Share George School is proud to announce that Zoel Boublil ’21 has been chosen as an inaugural member of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Speak Truth to Power (STTP) Youth Advisory Board. The STTP Youth Advisory Board empowers youth through human rights education, partnering with educators and students alike to create a global…
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Don’t Whitewash History in Our Schools
Teaching the next generation about our country’s successes and shameful shortcomings is vital if we’re ever to learn from our past.
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Eliminating Educational Disparities Once and For All
Tags Share As schools across the country have headed back to the books, both virtually and in person, some depressing news about ever-widening educational disparities have been released to coincide with the new academic year. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international organization focused on developing global standards and finding solutions to social,…
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Students Successfully Campaign to Rename School After John Lewis
Their teacher, Erik Manuel Giblin, a former RFK Human Rights team member, said the name change reflects both Lewis’ and RFK’s commitment to justice.
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Mastering a Masterclass at a Challenging and Historic Time
Tags Share This year, two major sources of upheaval—a worldwide pandemic compounded by mass protests over continued systemic racism—have presented educators with extraordinary new challenges. Now that much of teaching has shifted to a virtual environment, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Speak Truth to Power Masterclass, presented in partnership with Discovery Education, Humanity United, and…
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The Latest Barrier to Education: Lack of Technology
Access to technology is a necessary linchpin to level the educational playing field, especially in a time of online learning.
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