Chicago Videos
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Barbara Eason-Watkins Discusses Facing History and the Chicago Public Schools |
Barbara Eason-Watkins, Chief Education Officer at the Chicago Public Schools, discusses their ongoing partnership with Facing History and the positive impact Facing History has had in CPS classrooms. |
Nov 10 2009 |
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Eboo Patel Speaks at 2009 Chicago Facing History Dinner |
Eboo Patel, featured speaker at the 2009 Facing History and Ourselves Chicago Benefit Dinner, speaks about the enormous demographic influence of young people in today's world. He stresses the importance of programs such as Facing History in shaping their thinking, so they will open their hands to others rather than make fists. |
May 8 2009 |
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Javier N. Speaks at 2009 Chicago Benefit Dinner |
Javier N, a member of the Facing History and Ourselves Chicago Student Leadership Team, speaks about the impact of the team's work on his ability to relate to students from diverse backgrounds and understand that we all share a common label: the label of being human. |
May 8 2009 |
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A Problem from Hell: Samantha Power Talks about Genocide | Samantha Power, Anna Lindh Professor of Practice Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, discusses some of the reasons it is so hard to combat genocide and outlines a continuum of possible intervention responses. Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide in 1944 and the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide four years later, but the United States did not ratify the Convention until 1988. | Feb 11 2003 |
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Students Discuss Obama's Book and Their Identity |
Students in Facing History classrooms from urban and suburban schools in the Chicago area met over several weeks to discuss how his book, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, related to their lives. Many of these students were in conversation with then-Senator Obama at the 2006 event. |
