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Category: American Society
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Is football too dangerous for kids?
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David Chura looks at our criminal justice system’s attitude — and our society’s attitude — towards prison rape, and prisoners in general.
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David Chura talks about his students and the challenges and rewards of teaching them.
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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship winner (2008), Builder Levy has photographed in New York City’s inner city communities where he was a New York City teacher of at-risk adolescents for 35 years; at civil rights and peace demonstrations in the 1960s and the new millennium; in Mongolia, Cuba, and other developing nations; and since…
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A mom reflects on the critically-acclaimed movie and her own family’s anonymous sperm donor.
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Charles Euchner looks at the dueling marches in Washington, both being held on the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
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In this excerpt from Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the March on Washington, the leaders of the March determine how to acknowledge the death of a leader in the movement for black civil rights.
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The King Institute shared with our blog scans of Martin Luther King’s program from the 1963 March on Washington.
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A member of Beacon’s staff shares some photos from her parent’s visit with Barack Obama.
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Amie Klepnauer Miller talked with her daughter about the Prop 8 decision and was reminded that the landmark judicial decision affects more than the potential brides and grooms.
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