Dealing with difficult heritage, educating on history in South-East Europe
Sighet Memorial Romania
The Convoy of the Martyrs
The Journey Home
When Shawn Dove of the Open Society Campaign for Black Male Achievement invited me to attend the campaign’s Mid-Western Regional Gathering in Milwaukee recently, I hesitated, not because of my lack of support for the campaign but because of the...
Looking Back At The 'Tremendous Hate' Of Bullies
Rob Littlefield was inspired to share his story at StoryCorps in Oklahoma City after others spoke out against...
A Pioneer Looks Back, 50 Years After Making History
Fifty years ago, the University of Georgia accepted its first two black students — Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter. Back then, the future journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault called him "Hamp." And she has vivid memories of the day they walked onto...
Rich countries letting poorest children fall, says new report
A landmark report by the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre has found that children in many wealthy European nations and the United States suffer greater inequality than children in numerous industrialized nations.
UNICEF and Japan support '1,000 Classrooms Project' in Afghan capital
Girls and boys were thrilled with the recent inauguration of a new high school in the Afghan capital, built as part of a major project in which the government will construct over 1,000 new classrooms in 58 schools in and around Kabul. The project is...
British PM statement on student protests
In our democracy people are fully entitled to protest peacefully and make their views known. But the violence in London today is totally unacceptable.
BANGLADESH: Rohingya Youth Hunger For Education
Ask any one of the 18,000 Rohingya youth at two government-run refugee camps in Bangladesh what they want most, the answer is unequivocally the same: education.
