June 26, 2015-Greenwich Village, New York City It was a Friday, and folks at the Stonewall Inn were celebrating. ..
Hello little leader! Let’s learn about braveness and boldness and kindness. There are plenty of leaders ..
When President Abraham Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861, seven Southern states had left the United ..
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the newly independent Tajikistan was left poor and without resources. ..
Close your eyes and picture a scientist. Was it a white dude in a lab coat, surrounded by test tubes ..
Have you ever heard a woodpecker tapping on a tree trunk? The tap-tap-tap of its beak against the bark ..
I write these stories of Selma that I knew and loved. My own Selma. A Selma that brought me joy, troubled ..
Hold out your hands and let me lay upon them a sheaf of freshly picked sweetgrass, loose and flowing, ..
We put on plays, and we sing songs. We give and get presents, too. Some children get a present on each ..
When I was a child growing up in India, Diwali was not only the most important festival and lasted the longest, ..
I remember my first Ramadan as clearly as if it were yesterday. And by this I mean the first time I kept ..
After eight months in the Pulau Bidong Refugee Camp, fourteen-year-old Phu flew to San Francisco. Since ..
You may get the idea that racism is happening only to Black and brown people. Racism is a white person’s ..
One of the greatest debts Ojibwe people owe women came during the difficult time that followed the coming ..
We come from stardust, our bodies made of ancient elements. We come from single cells evolving over billions ..
“I want you to know that in the last days and hours of my life you inspired me. You filled me with ..
As young people, you are much closer to remembering than adults. Remember a time when you were connected ..
Words and ways of thinking are changing all the time as old, limiting beliefs transform and evolve. What ..
We all have different abilities. Some of us can sing and play sports. Some of us can see, hear, touch, ..
Shannon watched her grandma turn the jingles. Not many people know how to do this. “Grandma, did you dance ..
Wild rice, which the Ojibway call mahnomin, has long been an important food for Native Americans in the Upper ..
For most social, political, and ceremonial functions, the Ojibwe had a very strict gendered division ..
Gumbo, in it’s basic form, arrived shortly after 1720, carried in the flavor memories of enslaved ..
That fall, Sylvia and her brother had to attend Hoover Elementary, better known as “the Mexican school,” ..
Children come to live in America from many different countries. And for many different reasons. Some ..
