Ever since discovering playground kickball in the second grade, I have loved sports. In high school I ran track (a mediocre 400 meters), played football (a decent linebacker), basketball (a good corner jump shot), and baseball (always a little afraid of line drives). I loved the competition, the practice—loved improving my competence, loved team camaraderie. I enjoyed […]
“… as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don’t the adults around here just say something? Say it so that they know we don’t accept segregation? I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can’t sugarcoat it. You have to take […]
Reversing Falls Sanctuary will host Robert Shetterly and AWTT at a MLK Day Celebration on Monday, January 19, 2026, at 2 p.m.
I’ve written before about the fierce negativity of the MAGA community toward Wokeness, i.e., their contention that teaching or professing the true history of racism in the United States is a terrible thing to do because it heaps shame and guilt on white children for racial sins of the past, sins they are not responsible for and […]
Robert Shetterly will deliver the Center for Global Humanities Lecture, at Innovation Hall on the University of New England Portland Campus, on Wednesday, January 28, 2026, at 6 p.m.
Singer/songwriter Reggie Harris will be the featured performer at the Martin Luther King Day celebration at 3 p.m. on Sunday, January 18, 2026, at the First Methodist Church in Bangor, Maine.
Many adults—teachers, parents—are overwhelmed, angry, and fearful with what is happening in the world. The wars, the environment, the political rancor, the outright cruelty being modeled by people in positions of power, the corruption and celebration of greed, the dishonesty. Anger and fear are appropriate responses. The checks and balances of our institutions have failed, […]
Four AWTT portraits travel to Hampden Academy for School Partnership Program.
AWTT will attend the 105th NCSS (National Council for the Social Studies) Annual Conference, in Washington, D.C., December 5-7, 2025.
AWTT staff are excited to be attending the New Jersey Education Association’s annual convention again this year – in Atlantic City, November 6-7, 2025.