I think this might be my favorite video so far. I found her speech to be so beautiful. I have read some of her books, and I show (parts of) her TedTalk "The Danger of a Single Story" to my students before we really launch into our social studies content about slavery. 

I really appreciated when she said "we cannot be dismissive of a history because we are uncomfortable with it" and truly believe that children rise to the occasion of speaking about "hard" history. I love that the majority of her speech here was told in stories. I think it is so valuable for students to hear and connect with people stories. Years ago, during a lesson about reconstruction, one of my 4th grade students raise his hand in complete disgust that once all enslaved people were no longer enslaved, that they were not honorable paid back for all the work they had previously done. He had never heard the work reparations, and just genuinely believed in his heart that monatary reparations should have been the starting point. 

In our conversations about slavery we talk so much about the material things that were taken from people, but we also bring up the emotional things that were taken from people. My students often speak about powerful ideas of resistance and how someone can take away your belongings but they cannot take away your joy or intellect. I would love to show them parts of this video and ask them the following question: 

The speaker asks us to think about what should happen when an important object was taken from a person or community without permission.
Questions you can ask your students: What would be fair to do? How can listening to the people connected to an object help us make respectful decisions?