One of the positive effects of the last two years has been a cornucopia of new books for younger children about activism and true stories of kids who've changed the world. Brightly shares lists and descriptions of some of the best of each...
A Washington, DC-area pastor is taking the educator's dictum, 'go where they are,' to virtual extremes--and changing lives in our increasingly digital, corporately over-determined world...
Every American should see Won't You Be My Neighbor? And read this extraordinary profile of arguably the humblest, most determined synthesis of creative individualism and communal decency in our country's history...
In his suicide note, her husband told her what to do. Now Welsh housewife Emma Picton-Jones is solving a problem that afflicts the heartland on both sides of the Atlantic...
New Yorker Amanda Needham learns that sometimes a protest sign becomes more than just a sign.. ...
An Indiana fifth grader who's been mercilessly bullied about his appearance--to the point of contemplating suicide--gets support from an unexpected source on his first day back in school.....
Too young to know better? A puppet of adults? Tell that to Barbara Rose Johns, a high-school junior who shut down her school and spurred one of the most important cases in Supreme Court history...
For decades, Daryl Davis has been reaching out over the hardest and highest barriers of all in daily American life...
Meet Jackie Corin, the teenage organizational mastermind behind the Parkland kids' efforts to change the course of our elections, and with them the terms of debate over gun control...
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...
