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...
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”...
By Ella Marnin age 10 The 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising was on June 28. The uprising started when police raided a gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, located in Greenwich Village, New York. Back then, bartenders used to refuse to serve gay people. Some places...
By Marianne Nacanaynay, age 15 Sari-Sari Storybooks will begin releasing children’s books written in the native languages of the Philippines in the United States this September. After a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2016, in June, it released its first three...
By ELEANOR HEDGES DUROY, age 13 Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang is a memoir that takes place during the Cultural Revolution in China. It is 1966, and the changes in China are difficult for everyone. Ji-Li is a scholarly 12-year-old girl who lives with her parents,...
By ADEDAYO PERKOVICH, age 11 Rick Giudotti photographs Jayne, who has a condition called albinism. PHOTO: On Beauty Former fashion photographer Rick Giudotti sees beauty in everyone. “We want to give people another way to see difference…to embrace it,” he...
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