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2025 SoCal POCIS (People of Color in Independent Schools) Rethinking Diversity
As part of the 2025 SoCal POCIS (People of Color in Independent Schools) Rethinking Diversity series, secondary computer teacher Saber Khan co-led a discussion on March 18 about the intersections of DEIJ and technology.Read More -
People of Color Conference & Student Diversity Leadership Conference
In December, nine CH faculty/staff/admin and four students attended the People of Color Conference & Student Diversity Leadership Conference in St. Louis, MO.Read More -
Teacher Javoné Williams featured in The Collective Memory Installation
The artwork of Elementary Science Lab Associate teacher Javoné Williams is being featured in The Collective Memory Installation: a digital exhibition of artworks reflecting on the collective history of Los Angeles County, presented by the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture.Read More -
AsEA (Asian Educators Alliance) Conference
CH History teacher Dr. Susie An led a workshop titled "Uncovering Sources of Asian American Solidarity, Dismantling Perceptions of Privilege" at the AsEA (Asian Educators Alliance) Conference.Read More -
#USvsHate Contest Winner
Congratulations to Andrew G. ’22 who was selected as a winner in the #USvsHate Winter 2021 contest.Read More -
Author Visits 7th Grade
During advisory time on November 2, 7th grade students were treated to a virtual visit from author Ernesto Cisneros.Read More -
DEIJ Faculty Training
Following a successful year of work with MS/HS English and History classes, grades 3-6 of the elementary division will be engaging in an Anti-bias Curriculum Redesign project this year.Read More -
Guide Dogs Lead the Way
Ever since Sydney S. ’24 learned about raising guide dogs in elementary school during a community service fair, she knew she wanted to train a puppy herself one day. While the world shut down during the pandemic, Sydney and her family thought it would be the perfect time to do just that.Read More -
Torrey Maldonado, Author and Teacher
Torrey Maldonado, history teacher and author of critically acclaimed middle grade books Secret Saturdays, What Lane, and Tight, visited the middle school to share how he started writing, discuss the important themes that run throughout his work, and read aloud from two of his novels.Read More -
FIRST GEN Alumni Panel Discussion
FIRST GEN is a group of CH alumni dedicated to supporting current CH Juniors and Seniors who will be the first in their family to attend a four-year college or university. This group, started by CH alumni who are also the first in their family to attend college, serves to mentor current first generation college students and provide insight and support to students and their families.Read More
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Resources
Each month, we will be highlighting valuable resources for the community, so please be sure to check back regularly.
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How We Fight for Our Lives
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir. The story follows Jones as a young, Black, gay man in 1990s Lewisville, Texas as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears.
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A Better Life
Carlos Galindo always dreamed of a better life for his wife and newborn son when he crossed the border into the U.S. A story that follows father and son as they embark on a physical and spiritual journey where they discover that family is the most important part of the American dream.
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Beyond Black History Month Podcast
In this episode of Beyond Black History, host Femi Redwood speaks with descendants of some of the enslaved people freed on Juneteenth. One of the ancestors places a special focus on is Jack Yates, who played a major role in building the Black community known as Freedman's Town.
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Hannah G. Solomon Dared to Make a Difference
When Hannah G. Solomon looked around Chicago, she saw unfairness all around her. When she grew up, she founded the National Council of Jewish Women―the first organization to unite Jewish women around the country―and fought to make life better for others.
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How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
An eye-opening look at how young Arab- and Muslim-Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy.
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Lailah's Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story
Lailah is in a new school in a new country, thousands of miles from her old home, and missing her old friends. When Ramadan begins, she is excited that she is finally old enough to participate in the fasting but worried that her classmates won’t understand why she doesn’t join them in the lunchroom. Lailah solves her problem with help from the school librarian and her teacher and in doing so learns that she can make new friends who respect her beliefs.
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The Night of Las Posadas
Tomie dePaola's glorious paintings are as luminous as the farolitos that light up on the Plaza in Santa Fe for the procession of Las Posadas, the tradition in which Mary and Joseph go from door to door seeking shelter at the inn on Christmas Eve.
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Authentic Selves
Groundbreaking in its depictions of joy and community, Authentic Selves celebrates trans and nonbinary people and their families in stunning photographs and their own words.
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Sitting Pretty
Sitting Pretty is a memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.
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Nuestra América: 30 Inspiring Latinas/Latinos Who Have Shaped the United States
Nuestra América: 30 Inspiring Latinas/Latinos Who Have Shaped the United States highlights the inspiring stories of thirty Latina/o/xs throughout history and their incredible contributions to the cultural, social, and political character of the United States.
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National Pride Month
Check out the Smithsonian National Pride Month page with a host of Pride resources, including links to articles and episodes of their podcast, Sidedoor.
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I Want You to Know We're Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir
I Want You to Know We’re Still Here is the poignant and deeply moving story not only of Esther’s journey but of four generations living in the shadow of the Holocaust. They are four generations of survivors, storytellers, and memory keepers, determined not just to keep the past alive but to imbue the present with life and more life.
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A Kid’s Guide to Arab American History
Many Americans mistakenly believe all Arabs share the same culture, language, and religion, and have only recently begun immigrating to the United States. A Kid's Guide to Arab American History dispels these and other stereotypes and provides a contemporary as well as historical look at the people and experiences that have shaped Arab American culture.
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Seven Special Somethings: A Nowruz Story
Can Kian find seven special somethings to make a new haft seen before his family arrives for their Nowruz celebration?
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Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires
This book tells the stories of the first six self-made African-American millionaires. After escaping slavery and evading assassination and lynching attempts, lawsuits, and more, these six inspiring African-American entrepreneurs pioneered their way into the highest levels of financial success. This book recounts how their determination, resilience and achievements shaped and altered the social order and influenced both Black and business history.
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Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix
For Chef Roy Choi, food means love. It also means culture, not only of Korea where he was born, but the many cultures that make up the streets of Los Angeles, where he was raised. So remixing food from the streets, just like good music—and serving it up from a truck—is true to L.A. food culture.
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The 10 Best Hanukkah Books for Kids
Celebrate Hanukkah with your child and a great book. Check out this list of 10 Hanukkah books for kids.
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Notable Native People
Notable Native People celebrate the lives, stories, and contributions of Indigenous artists, activists, scientists, athletes, and other changemakers in this beautifully illustrated collection.
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The LGBTQ + History Book
Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenomena and features biographies of key figures.
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A Queer History of the United States
A Queer History of the United States is a concise history of LGBTQ+ people in US society. It describes ways in which queer people have influenced the evolution of the United States, and how the culture of the United States has affected them. (Also available in a Young Readers version).
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Rachel's Roses
What will you give up for those you love? Rachel Berger wants special buttons for her Rosh Hashanah outfit, but her family can't afford them, so she sets out to earn the money herself. With the Jewish New Year as a backdrop, Rachel learns what really matters. Ages 7-10.
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Arab in America
The eye-opening story of the life of an average Arab American struggling with his identity in an increasingly hostile nation. Using the graphic novel as his medium, Lebanon-born Toufic El Rassi chronicles his experience growing up Arab in America.
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
In Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America.
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson draws its title from a poem by celebrated author Richard Wright, in which he wrote that he had left the South and moved to Chicago in the hopes of feeling “the warmth of other suns.” The Warmth of Other Suns tells the powerful, true stories of three Black Americans who, like Mr. Wright and millions of others, left the South between 1915 and 1970 to seek opportunity and freedom from Jim Crow rule elsewhere in the U.S.
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Beyond the Gender Binary
Spoken word poet Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression.
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Indigenous Peoples' History
Going beyond the story of America as a country “discovered” by a few brave men in the “New World,” Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity.
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Invisible Women
Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates shocking root causes of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women, diving into women’s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more.
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Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
Seven years before Brown v. Board of Education, the Mendez family fought to end segregation in California schools. Discover their incredible story in this picture book from award-winning creator Duncan Tonatiuh.
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Invisible Women
Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates shocking root causes of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women, diving into women’s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more.
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Fairest
Fairest by Meredith Talusan is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a “sun child” from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up to become a woman in America. Talusan's evocative reflections will shift our own perceptions of love, identity, gender, and the fairness of life.
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AAPI Recommended Books for Children
Check out this blog from Avery and Augustine for a host of AAPI recommended books for children.
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Out of Place
From one of the most important intellectuals of our time comes an extraordinary story of exile and a celebration of an irrecoverable past. With this memoir Edward Said rediscovers the lost Arab world of his early years in Palestine, Lebanon, and Egypt.
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The Woman's Hour
Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective forces into battle, The Woman's Hour is the gripping story of how America's women won their own freedom, and the opening campaign in the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights.
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The Women Who Caught The Babies
The Women Who Caught the Babies highlights important aspects of the training and work of African-American midwives and the ways in which they have helped, and continue to help so many families by “catching” their babies at birth.
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New York Times: Black History Continued
New York Times: Black History Continued is a series that explores pivotal moments and transformative figures in Black culture.
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No Voice Too Small
No Voice Too Small profiles fourteen young activists who have stepped up to make change in their community and the United States.
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Heads of the Colored People: Stories
With devastating insight and remarkable style, Nafissa Thompson-Spires explores what it means to come to terms with one's body, one's family, and one's future.
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Disability Visibility
Activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.
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A Nation of Women
Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo advocates a workers’ revolution, forcefully demanding an end to the exploitation and subordination of workers and women.
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The Person You Mean to Be
The Person You Mean to Be is an evidence-based book about to battle biases, champion diversity and inclusion, and advocate for those who lack power and privilege.
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
New York Times Bestseller From a leading voice on racial justice, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness is an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female that exposes how white America’s love affair with “diversity” so often falls short of its ideals.
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We Are Everywhere
Through the lenses of protest, power, and pride, We Are Everywhere is an essential and empowering introduction to the history of the fight for queer liberation. Combining exhaustively researched narrative with meticulously curated photographs, the book traces queer activism from its roots in late-nineteenth-century Europe–long before the pivotal Stonewall Riots of 1969–to the gender warriors leading the charge today.
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Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent children in a persistently unjust world. READ→ -
Caste
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions. READ→ -
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates as a letter to his teenage son confronts the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being Black in the United States. READ→ -
So You Want to Talk About Race
In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to "model minorities" in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life. READ→ -
How to Be an Antiracist
Kendi explores concepts of racism and offers proposals for anti-racist individual actions as well as systemic changes. READ→
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Coco
A 12-year-old boy named Miguel is accidentally transported to the Land of the Dead, where he seeks the help of his deceased musician great-great-grandfather to return him to his family among the living and to reverse his family's ban on music.
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The New Year's Eve of Old Lee
When a father's daughter returns home from Beijing with her own daughter during Chinese New Year, conflict breaks out across the three generations.
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Chinese Music for the Lunar New Year
Also called the Spring Festival, the Lunar New Year in China marks the traditional start of the agricultural season. It’s also a time to admire the hearty plum blossom, which flowers so early that snow is sometimes still on the ground. Enjoy these performances of music celebrating plum blossoms, lingering snow, and the arrival of springtime.
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The Mindful Muslim Podcast
The Mindful Muslim is an Inspirited Minds podcast that hosts raw, open, and honest conversations on various topics within the sphere of mental health, psychology, Islam, and spirituality.
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