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Explore your own prejudices and learn how to foster tolerance at home, in schools and in your community.
Are our affirming beliefs about diversity really our core beliefs? Or do we make different assumptions about "others" in our subconscious minds? Tolerance.org's Hidden Bias Tests, developed at the University of Washington and Yale University, are designed to expose unconscious prejudices. Go
The "Writing for Change" manual highlights examples of underlying prejudices in the written word and offers more than 50 free, downloadable activities you can use to help yourself learn how to pen words void of bias. Go
From the historical paintings in our textbooks to advertisements in local newspapers to movies and video games, the incessant stream of images we encounter each day shapes our perceptions of the world and of one another. This lesson in active viewing will help you answer the questions: What assumptions or omissions has the artist made in creating this image? What assumptions am I making as I look it?
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Our guidebook, Drawing the Line, explains the redistricting process and provides tools and techniques that can help you become a force for equity in your community, in your state and in the nation.
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Here is the story of the Civil Rights Movement and those who died in the struggle. Their lives serve as an example of the personal tragedies suffered for a movement that transformed the U.S.
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