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Gender Spectrum
Young people speak out against fitting every person into one of two narrowly conceived gender categories.
July 8, 2014
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Boys in a Cigar Factory
This 1908 photograph by Lewis Hine depicts young children at work in an early 20th century factory.
July 2, 2014
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‘Hope, Despair and Memory’
"Hope, Despair and Memory" is an address given by Elie Wiesel on December 11, 1986, the date Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Wiesel is an author and humanitarian and is known for writing about his experience as a survivor of the Holocaust.
July 5, 2014
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Literature
How the World Came to Be
These creation myths, from two different cultures, consider how the world came to be.
July 9, 2014
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Literature
The Three Billy Goats Gracious
A retelling of "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," this story puts a cooperative twist on the traditional Norwegian tale.
July 3, 2014
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Old Joe and the Carpenter: An Appalachian Tale of Building Bridges
Are material possessions more important than friendship? Should you act on the impulse to get back when someone hurts you? Will you let pride get in the way of your friendship? This tale about bridges brings these questions to the fore..
July 9, 2014
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Only Young Once: The Case for Dismantling the South’s School-to-Prison Pipeline
We must end the long-standing maltreatment and criminalization of Black children in the education system throughout the South.
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1982: The AIDS Epidemic
In his article, physician and journalist Lawrence K. Altman describes the early cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and the uncertainty that surrounded the infectious disease at its naming.
July 5, 2014
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Julia Moves to the United States
Sean McCollum gives an account of writer Julia Alvarez's move to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a young girl. Although Alvarez struggled to fit in in this unfamiliar place, she finally found a comfortable niche in her writing.
July 9, 2014