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Finding My Center
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Four Guiding Principles for Difficult Conversations
In the wake of Freddie Gray’s death, a Baltimore teacher finds Facing History tools and resources essential in creating the safe space for students to discuss the painful local events around them.
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Gay Olympians are Changing the World
Kyle explains why representation and speaking out matter, highlighting Olympians Adam Rippon and Gus Kenworthy as role models.
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How Samantha Power Inspired Me to be an Upstander
A student shares her transforming experience hearing upstander Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, speak at school visit.
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How to Stand Up for Black History at Your School
Learn about how to approach the history you learn with a critical and thoughtful eye, and why representation and inclusion matter, specifically in the context of Black History Month.
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Making History: Students in Mexico Open Mobile Holocaust Museum
Students and teachers at the Prepa Ibero School in Mexico City, put the finishing touches on a mobile Holocaust museum.
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Memphis Students Unite Their Community 100 Years After A Lynching
Learn how Memphis high school students were inspired by a class research project to create the action group Students Uniting Memphis and bring the community together commemorate the 1917 murder of lynching victim of Ell Persons.
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My Facing History Journey
A student shares their experience with Facing History and Ourselves' seminal resource, Holocaust and Human Behavior and the class' journey through Scope and Sequence.
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Our Voices Will Be Heard
Living Dr. King’s words, Nida marches toward a secure and livable world with the disciplined nonconformists dedicated to justice and peace.
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Pushing Through Fear
Read student Morgan's experience being bullied and how she used her experiences as a catalyst to lobby for a statewide task force to study bullying in Kentucky. Morgan's essay was a scholarship-winning submission for Facing History's 2017 "Making Choices in Today's World" student essay contest.
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Reach for the Stars
Shreya draws inspiration from three influential figures in STEM: Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson who experienced racism and sexism while working as mathematicians at NASA's Langley Laboratory in the early 1960s.
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Resilience in the Face of Hatred
What does it mean to live in a world where even our most sacred spaces are vulnerable to the most violent crimes? What are our responsibilities as individuals? What should our collective response be?
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