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Share with students political theorist Danielle Allen's ten questions to ask before choosing to take action online.
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Learn about how bloggers and activists in Kenya used technology to respond to violence after a contested election in 2008.
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Read Ambassador Samantha Power's 2016 speech on the global refugee crisis, and her examples of the "small steps" communities are taking to aid refugees.
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Philip Zimbardo on "What Makes a Hero?"
Zimbardo identifies social mechanisms that can facilitate the transition of ordinary people into evil-doers as well as into heroes.
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Police Press Conference in Ferguson
Read a transcript of the press conference that took place ten days after Michael Brown’s death and several days after responsibility for security in Ferguson was transferred from local police to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
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Learn about the challenges of addressing religious difference in French public schools.
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Reflect on quotes from South Africans about how the country's history informs its democracy.
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Scholar, teacher, and author Lisa Delpit expresses her ideas about what racism is in a letter to her daughter.
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Reflections on Sugihara's Motives
Hear from a rescuee, an academic, and from Chiune Sugihara himself on why he saved the lives of the Lithuanian Jews.
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Explore the relationship between religious identity and belonging with these accounts of Asian migrants in Britain.
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