Women-Led Antiwar Movement of WWI
Jane Addams & fellow women delegates of the International Women’s Congress, 1915. Photo by Wikimedia Commons By Jessie Mai Mitnick, age 12 During World War I, young men from all over the country were drafted into the war to fight. This left many women at home,...
Antiwar Movements Throughout History: An Introduction
Eugene V. Debs, five time candidate for President, following his release from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in 1921. Photo by Wikimedia Commons By Jessie Mai Mitnick, age 12 “... no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.” -- Eugene V. Debs...
Why Wildfires in Australia Were So Bad This Year and What’s Being Proposed to Prevent More Devastation
By Owen Hughes, 9 years old, Australian correspondent Wildfires, or bushfires, as they are called locally, have always occurred in Australia. But in the last five months or so, Australia has experienced its worst fires yet. The fires have mainly been taking place in...
Undocumented, Uninsured and Unprotected: The Struggle to Get Healthcare in the U.S.A.
By Amedeo Max Bettauer, age 10 The American humorist Josh Billings once said, “Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.” Census data from 2017 shows that for 27 million Americans and 615,000 New Yorkers, that concept is hauntingly...
Seven Accused in Murder of Environmentalist Berta Cáceres Sentenced to Prison
Original Illustration by Emogene Cataldo By Lucia Mejia, age 12 In December 2019, seven men were sentenced to jail for the murder of activist Berta Cáceres, 44. Five of the men were sentenced to 50 years of jail time, and two were sentenced to 30 years. Cáceres was a...
Brooklyn Book Bodega Believes “Books + Kids = Power”
Photo by, Annie Spratt on Unsplash By Tallulah Echtenkamp, age 11 & IndyKids staff Over 21,404 free books distributed across the city. That’s the impact the Brooklyn Book Bodega has had. A bodega is a store that sells many things. However, the Brooklyn Book Bodega...
School Shootings Still Threaten Kids. They’re Trying to Stop It.
Protesters in San Francisco. Photo by Natalie Chaney By Amedeo Max Bettauer, age 10 & IndyKids staff Every day, school buses across the country pass through metal gates, past guardhouses with uniformed police officers, and into parking lots with high fences and...
2020 Census: Why It Matters to Be Counted!
By Jesus Hernandez, age 11 Every 10 years, the U.S. Census Bureau counts every person living in the United States, and it’s happening in 2020. The census impacts how the government distributes more than $675 billion in federal funds to communities for services like...
100 Years of Votes for Women: The Fight Continues
By Dayanara Hernandez, age 15 This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote in the United States. While women went on to make U.S. political history in 2018 winning a record number of congressional seats, women...
“We Can’t Eat Money or Drink Oil” – Youth on the Frontlines Fight for Climate and Environmental Justice
By Lucia Mejia Cardenas, age 11 and Indykids Staff Young people are making history as powerful leaders in the fight against climate change. Sixteen-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is receiving global attention for her work and has quickly become the face of...
How Is the Story of America Told? Illuminating History to Better Understand the Past, the Present and Our Future
History can be an exciting and fascinating window into the past—learning about inspiring people and how they helped create what we have today. But there are some parts of history that are painful and difficult to tell. Oftentimes these traumatic events in our past...
The 1619 Project: Revealing the Truth About Slavery and Its Legacy
By Dayanara Hernandez, age 14 On a warm sunny day, New York Times journalist Nicole Hannah-Jones stands on shoreline of Old Point Comfort, Virginia, with the waves lapping beside her and the seagulls chirping above. In the first epsiode of the 1619 podcast, she pauses...
The 400 Years of Inequality Project Uses the Study of History to Create a More Equal Society
By Rosell Rivas, age 10 years old and Aisha Tabala age, 11 The 400 Years of Inequality project marks a painful anniversary in American history, when the first of millions of Africans were brought over as slaves to work on plantations established on land stolen from...
An Indigenous Peoples’ History for Young People
By: August Kaiser Age, 11 and Indykids staff Kids aren't always being taught the truth about Native American history, and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz wants this to change, so she encourages them to learn about history from resources produced by Native Americans and...
40th Anniversary of A People’s History of the United States
By Michael Warman Hirschfield, age 12 Next year is the 40th anniversary of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. Zinn, an activist, historian and professor, is celebrated for raising awareness of the oppressed. He highlighted the stories of people...
Mni Wiconi, Water Is Life. Why I Stand Up for Native Rights
By Aslan Tudor age 12 years old Aslan is the author of two books, Young Water Protectors and Young Native Activist. He is a citizen of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas. When we arrived at the Oceti Sakowin camp, there were thousands of tents and tipis set up in front...
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