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In a year when hate thrived, we thought it was important to remember some of the good things that happened in 2017.

Helen Sims, aka the Old Storyteller of Belzoni, Mississippi, encourages us to accept the torch that is being passed to us.

Austin teenagers learn to expect respect in dating relationships.

All over the nation people strive to answer Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous invocation: “What are you doing for others?” Many engage in projects to make their community a better place to live. My students at Life Academy in California have answered the call to service in several ways. First, they showed up on campus during a school holiday to beautify the school grounds, paint a mural, clean out an old storage room, build benches and tend to a garden. Second, they launched a 74-day fast “Season of Peace Building.” Students signed up to fast on certain days, in a kind of relay, to highlight the time from MLK day to Cesar Chavez day.

Some students struggle to see gender stereotypes, but telling personal stories can open their eyes.

A new use of the word accomplice pushed this educator to rethink her activist approaches inside and outside the classroom.

This 1972 law was never just about sports—it radically changed everything about education for girls and women.