17-year old Aleita Cook is taking on the federal government over a rebuilding essential for our democracy--universal K-12 civic education--and, in the process, illuminating stark and dangerous disparities in what is being passed on to generation next about our nation...

Revolution's Steve Case is seeking to spread high tech investment far beyond Silicon Valley, leveraging the strengths of the forgotten small cities and towns all across America the 21st century's been leaving behind...

One of the last groups some still seem to feel it's OK to make the butt of jokes are poor white rural southerners, but after a unique teacher from Memphis, Tennessee made a pilgrimage to Mississippi, no one's laughing anymore...

Those street musicians on the corner may not be who you think, at least not in New York City, thanks to an immigrant from a small town in upstate New York...

The 14 year old from the Chicago suburbs who turned a moment of shame and embarrassment into sweeping change across the country...