Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a journalism professor and author of a book on race that spans more than 50 years, I’ve watched these developments with great ...

Today’s heated arguments about critical race theory shouldn’t surprise us because they aren’t new. Indeed, one of the best-known classroom experiments to combat racism remains a divisive subject more ...

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 prompted educator Jane Elliott to create the now-famous "blue eyes/brown eyes exercise." As a school teacher in the small town of Riceville, Iowa, ...

Fifty years ago, I was a young teacher in the quiet farm town of Hatfield, Massachusetts. Across the Connecticut River, the towers of UMass stood tall against the horizon. On that campus, student ...

Mrs. Roseman, my sixth grade teacher, wanted to teach us a lesson one day in 1976. It was based on a famous exersize called "blue eyes, brown eyes,'' designed in 1968 by Jane Elliot, an Iowa third ...

Inequality (some subtle, some not-so-subtle) between the races has been around for centuries. To this day, our nation continues protesting racism and discrimination. People have had enough of being ...

The killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, was a seismic event, a turning point that compelled many Americans to do something and do it with urgency. Many educators responded by holding mandatory ...

Elliott created the blue-eyes/brown-eyes classroom exercise in 1968 to teach students about racism. Today, she says, it's still playing out as the... We Are Repeating The Discrimination Experiment ...