Chicago Videos
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“Even If You are Only One Voice”: Roxana Saberi |
Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist who was held captive for 100 days in Iran in 2009, reads a passage from her book Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran. She explains how knowing that friends and family were speaking out for her gave her the strength to carry on when she was imprisoned. Even if you are only one voice, she tells the audience at an Allstate Community Conversation hosted by Facing History and Ourselves, you can make a difference in other people’s lives. |
Oct 19 2011 |
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"Use Your Freedoms": Roxana Saberi |
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, spoke with the Facing History and Ourselves Student Leadership Team in Chicago. |
Oct 19 2011 |
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Baylee C.: "Speaking About Silence" |
For Baylee C., an 8th grader at John J. Pershing West Middle School in Chicago, a Facing History and Ourselves class awakened the realization of how important it is not to be silent. One of her great-grandfathers was an African American soldier in World War II who came home to the segregated South, but no one discussed how much it hurt to live under Jim Crow laws. One of her grandmothers had to flee Nazi Germany with her family because they were Jews, but her grandmother never spoke with her about the Holocaust, or how it felt when people in Germany stayed silent while their neighbors were stripped of their rights. Hearing from Holocaust survivors and learning about the civil rights movement in her Facing History class, Baylee now understands how important it is to communicate, and now she knows how to ask questions. She wants to break the silence. |
Apr 26 2011 |
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Chicago Humanities Festival Director Welcomes Facing History |
At a November 2009 Community Conversation event in Chicago, Stuart Flack, Executive Director of the Chicago Humanities Festival, highlights the Festival’s afinity with Facing History and Ourselves. |
Nov 9 2009 |
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Paul Farmer on Preventing Poverty and Disease |
Physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer explains how we can break the cycle of poverty and disease by sharing resources across boundaries. He spoke at a November 2009 Community Conversation in Chicago sponsored by Facing History and Ourselves and The Allstate Foundation. |
Nov 9 2009 |
