By Silin Razza-Baril, age 11 and Willa Krishnaswami, age 12 Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and creator of the 1619 Project, has launched the 1619 Freedom School in Waterloo, Iowa, which opened earlier this year. Newly launched 1619 Freedom...
Original illustration by Julie Wallace By Haven Hamre-Myers, age 15 and IndyKids staff The reckoning on how social media is impacting kids’ mental health has begun. Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg personally, have been called out for knowing about the issues surrounding...
Image by Markus Spiske on Pexels By Hudson McKinley-Uss, age 15 Older generations grew up during the time of the Cold War and had a future that was very uncertain—living with the threat of nuclear warfare, hearing things like “mutually assured destruction”...
Original illustration by Sydney Greene, sydvisuals.com By Neena Sapkota, age 12 Voting rights in the United States have come under attack since the 2020 presidential election. Eighteen states have already made voting more difficult by enacting 30 new voting laws. Many...
By Sami El-Hajjar, age 11 Republicans in Idaho, and others in primarily conservative states, have been targeting trans youth. Idaho and several other states have been pushing bills and legislation that prohibit trans youth athletes from competing on teams that...
By Sira Basse, age 15 The fight for gender equality in the workplace is an ongoing battle in the United States, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only made the struggle more dire. In the first 10 months of the pandemic, 5.5 million women around the country lost their...
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