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Lolita Bolden reflects on history and the love of community while sharing a poem.

Every kid's a hero.

My son was a 16-year-old high school junior on 9/11/2001. He could see the twin towers burning a few miles across the harbor from his school in Staten Island, N.Y. Across the country, other students watched the images on television, either as they were happening or later, as they looped endlessly on cable news.

The protests at Standing Rock offer four valuable lessons for students of all ages.

When this literature teacher completes a book with her class and hears a student say, “Reading this makes me happy I am an American,” she flips the script.

A real-life superhero shares his thoughts on the need for diversity in comics.