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This picture book explains the Muslim holiday Ramadan by answering the 5 Ws: who, what, where, when and why.

This short story—an important piece in early American feminist literature—sheds light on 19th century attitudes toward women with physical and mental illness. In this excerpt, the speaker details her bedroom, a place where her husband and doctors come to encourage her to health. Her ailment is vague; the emphasis is on what others—all men—think and say.

With only one wing, the little bird cannot fly to the raspberry patch with her brothers. As luck would have it, she meets a little dog, a chipmunk, and a frog who work together to get them all across the street to the raspberry patch.

This 2011 news segment reports on recent data on the state of economic equality for women. Despite the rise in higher education for women, men continue to out earn women.

In this blog post, Houska emphasizes the enduring spirit of the Native American people and their culture, outlines the group’s past and present obstacles and calls to action young Native Americans to carry on the torch of resilience.

In this interview from National Public Radio, host Terry Gross speaks with Imam Rauf about his dream to build a place where Muslims and people of different refligions can go to learn from each other and coexist.

Like many schools being called on to reconsider their mascot, the University of Mississippi convenes a student-run committee to find a replacement for theirs—a Confederate soldier.

This spoken word poem explores the limited definition of maleness that is sometimes passed from fathers to sons.

Kumu Hina, a teacher at Hālau Lōkahi in Hawaii, explains the gender-fluid language she’s coined for the gender-fluid “place in the middle.”

Because Najeeb Abreely remembers what it was like to emigrate to America, he can soothe the fears of frightened immigrants he must now inspect and question.