Begin with empathy and you can challenge students to examine the injustice in the constant struggle for equality.

In March 2017, Erin McCarthy and Colleen Perry were featured on the Milwaukee NPR affiliate WUWM discussing how they address race in a middle school classroom located in a mainly-white suburb.  At the heart of this story is inquiry.  Students inquire about their own identity. They try to answer a big question. They investigate sources and context.  Listen to the story here.
Lake Effect - How some metro Milwaukee schools work to bridge the race divide.

In February 2017 Erin McCarthy and Colleen Perry discussed their curricular focus on African-American history at the America's Black Holocaust Museum Founder's Day Gathering: Healing Racial Trauma 

CBS News
Milwaukee Independent article