United States
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Our Rights at Risk in a Public Health Crisis
The lesson uses interactive activities to explore the human rights at risk and the role of government in a public health crisis.
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Celebrating and Defending Trans and Non-Binary Lives
Speak Truth to Power partnered with the Human Rights Campaign to create a lesson plan to teach students about transgender and nonbinary people who come from all walks of life.
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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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Bullying: Language, Literature, and Life
Students will follow Jamie Nabozny’s story and learn to interpret language as a factor in perpetuating or preventing bullying.
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Farmworkers and the Struggle for Humane Working Conditions
The history of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is closely tied to the rights of the farmworker movement. That work continues today and is explored in this lesson plan.
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Freedom From Discrimination
The lesson seeks to break down stereotypes about people who are Muslim and increase understanding of Islam.
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A Legacy of Combating Urban Poverty
We explore Robert F. Kennedy’s legacy of urban economic justice through the work of Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth In Action and Rami Nashashib.
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A Legacy of Combating Rural Poverty
Students research how rural poverty affects health, education, employment, and housing.
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Criminal Justice and the New Jim Crow
Learners create educational materials on mass incarceration, reach out to their state representatives, and take mindful action with the organizations of two human rights defenders, Andrea James and Bryan Stevenson.
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Civil Rights and the Right to Education
Explore Robert F. Kennedy’s legacy of pushing for quality education for all through the work of Ruby Bridges and Aaron Maybin.
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