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, ...

Writings by Jane Elliott have also been banned in several states. Jane Elliott, an anti-racism activist best known for her April 5, 1968, blue eyes, brown eyes experiment demonstrating that prejudice ...

Jane Elliott will never forget her sister’s April 4, 1968, phone call telling her the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated. Elliott, like many people across the US, was shocked.

RICEVILLE | This year is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s also the 50th anniversary of Jane Elliott’s Blue Eyes-Brown Eyes experiment.

RICEVILLE - The author who sparked controversy with his account of cultural tensions in Postville is tackling what he predicts will be an equally touchy subject. University of Iowa journalism ...

You’ve got to be carefully taught." Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan wrote the musical "South Pacific" (Broadway premiere1949), and it may be that activist and educator Jane ...