Featured
Voting rights, racial justice and human rights — these values connect us in the movement to build a more inclusive democracy. Learn and teach about the 1965 Voting Rights Act and how the recent Supreme Court decision weakens protections for minority political representation. And watch our new critical conversation video on democracy and education.
Watch: Democracy and Education: Hasan Kwame Jeffries and David Wall Rice
The Learning Center
Learn with us to strengthen democracy and build a more just society.
Civics and Democracy
Democracy for the 21st century
Our nation’s 250th anniversary challenges us to imagine and build a more inclusive and resilient democracy for the next generation and beyond.
This first volume of the new Learning for ÈËÊÞÐÔ½» Anthology examines the foundations and future of democracy in the United States and education’s crucial role in building a more inclusive multiracial society that expands opportunities for civic and political participation. This volume offers articles to frame the conversation, an introductory civics and democracy course and additional resources for learning and teaching.
Teaching and Learning Hard History
Education for Liberation
As a young civil rights activist working on voting rights, Charles E. Cobb conceptualized the idea of Freedom Schools during his involvement in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. This video features a conversation between Mr. Cobb and historian Hasan Kwame Jeffries, recorded at Mr. Cobb’s home in Jacksonville, Florida, in October 2025.
More Content
Introduction to Civics for Democracy
Building a democracy for the 21st century requires transformation built on three essential principles: inclusive participation, institutional accountability and equitable representation.
Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage
This resource page offers a place to start learning more and teaching about AAPI experiences and communities.
Out of the Ashes: Building a New American Democracy
The erosion of institutions to safeguard democracy is an invitation to imagine a new democracy resilient enough to resist authoritarianism and inclusive enough to serve all.
How We Got Here and How We Move Forward (With Our Heads Held High)
Bold action and transformative interventions are necessary to reimagine and create an education system that ends harm and advances justice and racial equity.
Permission To Learn: Cultivating Lifelong Learning in Students and Educators
Reimagining education to cultivate curiosity, questioning, dialogue and critical thinking can develop students’ lifelong learning disposition and capacity for meaningful participation in a democratic society.
Support Democracy and Education Justice
To build a multiracial inclusive democracy requires educating for liberation and civic and political participation across the South and the nation.
