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During college, Sarah Geller traveled to Trinidad and began teaching music to children who had either been abandoned by their...
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born on July 18, 1918 on the eastern coast of Africa in Mvezo. When his father died when Nelson was...
Theater geeks are over two thousand years old, yet back in Ancient Greece they were considered cool. Electronics were...
Right now, the people of Iran continue to protest the election results of their 2009 election, in a show of solidarity and...
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500,000 to 1,000,000 elders in America are abused each year. For every case that is reported, another 12 to 13 are not. Abuse...
Reading up on or watching movies about female genital mutilation and those who have experienced it is a great way to become...
When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights came into effect, it was the first global attempt to stop the kinds of...
Free Speech Speech without censorship. Freedom of speech, the right to say whatever you want without retribution, is protected...
In the 1950's, the invention of television caused certain people to worry. Producers thought movies would die. Publishers...
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Chocolate can be bittersweet, and we don’t mean literally. While chocolate has many benefits to your health, some facts about...
We met with Kyle Knight, the coordinator in the Children’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch is one of...
Your parents complain that Facebook and other online technologies are making the world like, "Big Brother." You might think that...
Free speech may be one of the most coveted fundamental rights in the world. In 1948, the United Nations Universal Declaration of...
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America is about free speech for all, right? Especially when you can go online and seek or post anything you want. However, that...
Seth was a 19-year-old acting student in Los Angeles when a brief meeting with a friend who’d just returned from Africa changed...