Human Rights Education
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This fall, Bangor High School welcomed a sense of normalcy and a new social-emotional program
Tags Share At Bangor High School in Maine, a return to campus full time has brought students a sense of normalcy—and a steady and safe environment in which to learn, grow, and be themselves. It’s also brought them something new: the rollout of a first-of-its-kind partnership with Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Speak Truth to…
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New Speak Truth to Power Initiative Could Set Tone, Help Heal Divided Nation
Our partnership with Bangor High School incorporates human rights education into the school’s practices and culture to create an inclusive, dignity-driven learning environment.
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Celebrating Our 2021 Music and Video Contest Winners
Tags Share On Thursday, August 12, we celebrated members of our incredible Speak Truth to Power community through a virtual Human Rights Education Showcase. In this livestreamed event, Speak Truth to Power lead educators shared work they’ve been doing in their classrooms and beyond, members of our Youth Advisory Board spoke to the power of…
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Getting Into ‘Good Trouble’
Two members of our Speak Truth to Power Youth Advisory Board share what John Lewis’ concept of “good trouble” meant to them and how it has had an impact on their own community organizing.
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Building Restorative Justice in Schools From the Ground Up
Tags Share Justice “is not something that’s stored in [city halls or criminal legal centers] that gets rationed out to us once we commit trespasses against each other. Justice is something grander than that, that can’t be contained in any building. … Justice is how we meet each other, greet each other, and treat each…
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New Speak Truth to Power Pilot Program Set to Debut in Bangor, Maine
The first of its kind initiative incorporates human rights education and social-emotional learning into the school’s curriculum, practices, and culture.
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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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