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Tag Archives: Culture & Society
Restoring Trust and Improving Police and Community Relations
How can relationships between law enforcement and communities begin to improve? Watch as author Dwayne Bryant offers his perspective.
Fighting Stigma with Ice Cream at Sikia Café
Café owners in Uganda encourage their customers to learn sign language to interact with their staff. Choose the Quick Read text option to get the basic story or the Deep Read text option for more details.
A Newly Digitized Logbook Documents Life and Death on a Slave Trading Ship
A slave ship’s logbook was recently found and sent to Georgetown University for preservation. Its record of enslaved lives lost during the ship’s voyage is both tragic and telling.
The Real Story of Hua Mulan Is More Impressive Than Any Disney Version
The recently released Mulan movie is actually based on an ancient ballad. Many debate whether this ballad is fact or fiction…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Fast Facts
Want to know more about the extraordinary Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Read through this list of fast facts revealing some of the important work she accomplished during her career.
No Trick Or Treat: Americans Get Creative To Celebrate Halloween Safely
What will Halloween look like this year with the looming threat of COVID-19? Parents fear for their children’s safety.
Afghan women negotiating with the Taliban say they feel ‘heavy responsibility’
LISTEN: Afghan women fear what will happen to the rights they have fought for over the past two decades if the Taliban resumes power.
They were on a quest to visit every country. Then coronavirus happened.
People from all walks of life enjoy competitive travel. Unfortunately, the global spread of coronavirus has disrupted many people’s travel plans. Read more about the world of competitive travel and the uncertainty many travelers are facing.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life and work propelled women’s equality front and center
The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg impacted millions of people who have benefitted from her work for equality. Read about her life and monumental successes.
Digital technology offers new ways to teach lessons from the Holocaust
Read this article to learn about why all students should know what the Holocaust was and when it occurred to ensure events like these never happen again.
Forgiving to Keep a Lifelong Friend
Learn some great tips for how to find common ground with a friend after a fight.
What Is Fast Fashion — and Why Is It a Problem?
Your recent clothing haul may have more environmental costs and ethical concerns than you might expect. Read more about how fast fashion has a hidden cost many don’t know they are paying.
She became the first female mechanic in this country
Watch this video about one woman’s drive to educate the women around her and help create an environment of acceptance and opportunity.
Romeo and Juliet in the age of Covid-19
Read about how our modern-day Romeos coping with quarantine aren’t so different from Shakespeare’s Romeo.
Revisiting Ursula K. Le Guin’s Novella About Interplanetary Racism
Notable science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin wrote a novella about a far-off world that reflects the history of racism and colonization on our own planet. Click here to see graphic novelist Ben Passmore’s rendering of this story.
High school students are demanding schools teach more Black history, include more Black authors
Students across the country are making their voices heard: they want more diversity and thoughtful planning around anti-racism in their schools.
Vacaville inmates train shelter dogs to become service dogs in new program
Watch the video to learn more about how dogs are used in a prison training program as a way to rehabilitate inmates.
Japan university awards first-ever ninja studies degree
Think ninjas are just made-up characters who only live in stories? Think again! Genichi Mitsuhashi is the first students to graduate from a Japanese university with a master’s degree in ninja studies.
This Shook Lebanon Like Nothing Before
The recent explosion in Beirut is just another disaster the Lebanese people are having to deal with this year. Watch the videos to learn more.