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Indigenous Peoples’ Day: 10 Actions You Can Take
On Indigenous Peoples’ Day and beyond, take action to support Indigenous communities. The Voice of Witness book How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America shares contemporary first-person stories in the long and ongoing …


Where To Find Inclusive, Real History in the Anti-CRT Era
By Jennifer Gonzalez in Cult of Pedagogy; re-published with permission We are living in a time when a segment of the population is working as hard as it can to keep our students ignorant of history. …


Climate Disaster & Colonialism in Puerto Rico: New VOW Book Shares First-Person Stories after Hurricane María
Mi María: Surviving the Storm is out today! Order the book here. The latest addition to the Voice of Witness oral history book series, Mi María, launches today, September 14, in advance of the four-year …


Indigenous Resistance & Resilience: New VOW Book Shares First-Person Stories from Native North America
How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America is out now! The latest addition to the Voice of Witness oral history book series, How We Go Home, launches on October 6, in advance of …


A List of COVID-19 Community Resources from the VOW Team
We all need as much hope and inspiration as we can get right now. At Voice of Witness, our narrator communities—educators, students, and activists from and/or supporting those impacted by the criminal justice and immigration …


Introducing Our Oral History Resource Guide for English Language Learners
Voice of Witness is committed to developing curriculum through our education program that directly supports students in migrant and English Language Learner (ELL) communities. Today, you can download our new Oral History Resource Guide for English Language Learners. …