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Radio Rookies: Teen Journalists Tackle Tough Conversations, Build Digital Skills
Watch compelling multimedia stories created by New York City students. Through a pilot project with Facing History and New York Public Radio’s Radio Rookies program, young people tell their own stories and the stories of their communities.
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A Letter to Teachers
This National Teacher Appreciation Week, we reflect on the immense impact of educators. Explore our video, "A Letter to Teachers": in their own words, students, teachers, principals, and our founder Margot Stern Strom tell the story of how the Facing History experience grows leadership skills and expands empathy and moral insight.
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Roxana Saberi On Freedom
Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist who was held captive for 100 days in Iran in 2009, urges students to appreciate their freedoms by using them to help other people. Saberi, author of Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran, was the keynote speaker at Facing History's Denver/Rocky Mountain States benefit dinner on May 2.
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Student Journeys from Loss to Leadership - New England Benefit Dinner
Aung K.M. and his family escaped from deadly violence in Burma on a long journey to the US. Today, he sees connections across history: "What happened to my family and to me, to my country and my countrymen, is something has happened again and again, to millions of people. It happened in Burma and in Rwanda, in Kosovo and in Germany."
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San Francisco Bay Area Benefit: Young Alum Relays Profound Lessons from Freedom Rider Veterans
"They did it for us." Facing History alumna Jayanni Webster is powerfully inspired by an encounter with Freedom Rider participants, shares challenge to become upstander with 2012 Bay Area benefit audience.
