By Ayaan Soorma, age 9 At the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the monumental March on Washington concluded with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. giving his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28, 1963, exactly 60 years ago. More than 250,000 flooded the streets of Washington for the March for Jobs and Freedom …
By Jessie Mitnick, age 15 Affirmative action, a policy which allows elite universities to make conscious decisions about diversity within their student body, has been effectively ended by the Supreme Court of the United States following an appeal in June. For many Black, Latinx and other students of color, affirmative action policies act as a …
To Understand the Present, We Must Look to the PastBy IndyKids staff In the 1700s and 1800s, rich and powerful European countries, such as Britain, France, Spain and the Netherlands, began to venture out in search of more land and resources that they deemed valuable. They began to establish colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and …
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In 1949 my great-grandparents fled a war-torn Ukraine. When I first heard about the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, I couldn’t believe that so little had changed in over 70 years.
By Layla Maria Caba, age 10, Neena Sapkota, age 13, Cayzlen Rodriguez, age 9 abd Madison Harris, age 11
By Samir Iydroose, age 11
Formerly a senior news producer at Democracy Now!, Carla Wills is the manager of audio production at National Geographic and the executive editor of the Into the Depths podcast. Into the Depths follows a team of Black researchers and divers as they discover and explore many of the thousands of shipwrecks from the transatlantic slave trade.
By Sloan Becker, age 10
Henrietta Lacks received a posthumous award from the World Health Organization (WHO) in October 2021 finally acknowledging her legacy and large contribution to modern medicine.
By Jessie Mitnick, age 13
Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam spent 20 years in prison for the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X. Aziz was released from prison in 1985 and Islam in 1987. The case was recently revisited, and the two were subsequently exonerated of the crime.
By Jessie Mitnick, age 13
The Abolition Amendment aims to revise the 13th Constitutional Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States. These representatives are fighting a so-called loophole in the 13th Amendment, which allows for involuntary servitude to continue as a form of criminal punishment.
Introduction: “Power concedes nothing without a demand,” — Frederick Douglass: First Amendment & the Importance of Protest By Raya El-Hajjar, age 13 Did you know there is no legal age for exercising your First Amendment rights? Additionally, there are no citizenship requirements—anyone in the United States can exercise their right to free speech, assembly, press …
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