Read the speech Susan B. Anthony delivered after being arrested for voting in a presidential election before women had gained the right to vote.
Read the speech Susan B. Anthony delivered after being arrested for voting in a presidential election before women had gained the right to vote.
Consider quotes from South Africans about the nature of democracy and what makes it work.
Read about nineteenth-century Imperialism, the Congress of Berlin, and W. E. B. Du Bois’ analysis of the profound consequences of Europe's colonization of Africa.
British-Somali poet Warsan Shire gives voice to the experiences of refugees in this poem about "home."
Poet Warsan Shire tells the story of a young Somali-born refugee in this poem from the film Brave Girl Rising.
Read about the meeting of student activists from committed to ending gun violence from Parkland and Chicago.
A New York Times article addresses the role that social media played in rapidly bringing the events in Ferguson to national attention.
Investigate the history of Muslim women wearing head coverings, and consider how the veil became a political symbol.
Learn about the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and consider the racist themes that were on display.
Dylan Wray reflects on his time in the classroom as a white educator teaching a racially diverse group of students in South Africa.
French writer Amin Maalouf describes the connection between violence and issues of identity and belonging.
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz', a German diplomat stationed in the capital of Copenhagen, alerted both the Jewish community and the Danish underground of the coming roundup. As a result, most of the Danish Jews went into hiding and were transported to Sweden, where they were cared for thanks to Duckwitz’s diplomacy.