Scholars Timothy McCarthy and George Lipsitz discuss the connection between our responsibilities in the world today and two historical periods: the civil rights movement and the Reconstruction era.
Piece of Yemenite jewelry from the collection of Ava Kadishson Schieber.
Nigerian HIV-AIDS activist Yinka Jegede-Ekpe describes her work.
A group of young Germans view the antisemitic newspaper, Der Stürmer, and other Nazi propaganda displayed on a fence.
According to the UNHCR, 79,225 people lived in the Za'atri Refugee Camp in Jordan, near the Syrian border. All of them fled from Syria to escape the brutal civil war.
Zivia Lubetkin testifying at the Eichmann Trial, Jerusalem, 1961. Lubetkin was a leader in the Jewish Underground in Poland and key fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
During the 1963 Chicago Public Schools Boycott, 225,000 students protested racial segregation and unequal conditions in Chicago's schools. This video features footage of the boycott and student participants' eyewitness accounts.