Read the latest Facing Today post from Jackson Tse, a former Facing History intern, about how and why we should remember the victims and honor the survivors of the Nanjing Massacre.
Facing History & Ourselves: San Francisco Bay Area Digest
December 21, 2016
How do you address narratives of "us" vs. "them"?
History has taught us the dangers of dividing people between "us" vs. "them." Read the latest Facing Today post from Jackson Tse, a former Facing History intern, about how and why we should remember the victims and honor the survivors of the Nanjing Massacre. He urges us to take a stand against the currents of racial discrimination, hate speech, and violence.
Facing History’s Los Angeles Director, Liz Vogel, discusses how the rise in violence and hate speech in the US after the presidential election offers a chance for us to face ourselves and stand up to injustice.
Read a new feature in The Boston Globe about how our mission—equipping educators with curriculum tools on prejudice and injustice—has never been more relevant.
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We invite you to explore the fully revised, digital edition of Holocaust and Human Behaviorin a local workshop. In today’s world, questions of how to best build and maintain democratic societies that are pluralistic, open, and resilient to violence are more relevant than ever. Join us in Hayward on the evening of March 30, 2017 for this workshop.
Use this lesson plan to help your students explore the relationship between identity, family, and race through filmmaker Lacey Schwartz’s autobiographical documentary, Little White Lie, about discovering her identity.
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