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The First All-Black Team Will Climb Mount Everest Next Year
Learn about Full Circle Everest, an all-black mountaineering team that plans to make history and bring representation to the world of mountaineering.
America’s True History of Religious Tolerance
Freedom of religion has brought many immigrants to the United States. This article traverses the complex and largely unacknowledged historical struggle for religious tolerance in the United States.
UN endorses world’s 1st malaria vaccine as ‘historic moment’
Learn about why this vaccine is so important for children in Africa.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier had its first all-female guard change in history
Learn about the guard change ceremony and why this one was so important.
More ‘disease’ than ‘Dracula’—how the vampire myth was born
Historians still aren’t quite certain of vampires’ origins, but they have theories. Read more to find out what they are.
Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)
Learn about the holiday’s origins and how it is celebrated.
What We Owe Each Other
A social contract is an implied agreement among the people of a society about the rules that define their government. The author of this piece believes it’s time to establish new social contracts to replace systems that aren’t working well anymore.
Cesar Chavez
| Read about how Mexican-American Cesar Chavez forever changed the history of American Labor rights. He succeeded in bettering the lives of farm workers nationwide through his nonviolent efforts. |
The Netherlands unveils its first national Holocaust monument
| Discover the impact and significance of the Netherlands’ first national Holocaust monument. |
Teenage Aviator Aims to Be Youngest Woman to Circle the Globe Solo
| Read this article to learn how 19-year-old Zara Rutherford plans to make aviation history. |
Black interns: ‘You just need to give us a chance’
| This ground-breaking program gives thousands of young black professionals an opportunity to intern for elite companies around the world. |
Labor Wars in the U.S.
This detailed timeline describes several key conflicts in the historic struggle between prosperous industrialists and the workers whose labor drove their profits.
Achieving A Gender Just World: Thought Leaders Provide Actionable Ways To Break Through Equality’s Biggest Barriers
Men and women are still not guaranteed equal rights in the U.S. Constitution Read about concrete actions which thought leaders suggest we take in order to achieve equality.
Marvel’s “Shang-Chi” jabs, flips Asian American film cliches
Asian American actors feel like they’re finally getting the representation they deserve.
Deep sea diving…in a wheelchair
Watch Sue Austin challenge what it means to use a wheelchair in her underwater adventure.
California families relay harrowing escape from Afghanistan
Read about their experiences as they plead for the rescue of those still trapped in Afghanistan.
Young activists bemoan climate inaction, demand more say
Read what youth climate activists such as Vanessa Nakate and Greta Thunberg had to say at the Youth4Climate summit.
Banks Warned That Crypto Could Replace Dollar Within Five Years
Is cryptocurrency a fad or here to stay? Read about recent survey results that say it’s not only here to stay, but dollars may become a thing of the past.
In 1865, thousands of Black South Carolinians signed a 54-foot-long freedom petition
Read about some of the objects on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.