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Radio Rookies: Teen Journalists Tackle Tough Conversations, Build Digital Skills
Watch compelling multimedia stories created by New York City students. Through a pilot project with Facing History and New York Public Radio’s Radio Rookies program, young people tell their own stories and the stories of their communities.
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Transformation, Courage are Themes as Students Speak at Facing History Chicago Benefit Dinner
"You have to give everyone the chance to be unique in their own way... My Facing History teacher, Ms. Zajac, has a quote in her room, 'Your mind is like a parachute. It works best when it's open." - Student Jacques A.
"I’ve learned that every person can have power and a role in the world, regardless of age. It's given me the courage to research race and racism in my own community." - Alumni Nikki Jarvis
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Roxana Saberi On Freedom
Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist who was held captive for 100 days in Iran in 2009, urges students to appreciate their freedoms by using them to help other people. Saberi, author of Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran, will be the keynote speaker at Facing History's Denver/Rocky Mountain States Benefit Dinner on May 2.
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Student Journeys from Loss to Leadership - New England Benefit Dinner
Aung Kai Min and his family escaped from deadly violence in Burma on a long journey to the US. Today, he sees connections across history: "What happened to my family and to me, to my country and my countrymen, is something has happened again and again, to millions of people. It happened in Burma and in Rwanda, in Kosovo and in Germany."
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Denver Teacher Michael Schneider Explains Why ‘Little Things Are Big’
"Facing History helps our students grapple with complexity, but not be paralyzed by it... we hope and believe that grappling in a deep way with history has prepared our students to participate in our precious, fragile democracy." - English teacher Michael Schneider at our May 2 benefit dinner in Denver.
