Mar 28 Gay Marriage Cases Now in Justices' Hands Same-sex marriage supporters rally Wednesday outside the Supreme Court. Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call. For supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage, the arguments are over, and now the waiting begins. In the meantime, there is much speculation… Continue reading
Mar 28 Anti-Bullying Lessons With the Bard The works of Shakespeare offer a plethora of lessons about violence and its emotional origins. The Colorado Shakespeare Festival has adapted some of the bard's best-loved plays to help adolescents reflect on making better choices when faced with tough situations. Continue reading
Mar 28 Bringing Babies to the Classroom to Teach Empathy, Prevent Bullying Incidents of bullying in schools across the U.S. not only have an effect on students' emotional state, they can also have school wide ramifications. PBS NewsHour's American Graduate team recently traveled to Seattle to profile one program that works on… Continue reading
Mar 27 High Court Skeptical of Federal Defense of Marriage Act // Following the oral arguments at the Supreme Court challenging the Defense of Marriage Act, known as DOMA, attorney Roberta Kaplan and plaintiff Edith Windsor, among others, spoke outside the court. Defenders of the act did not appear outside the… Continue reading
Mar 27 School House Rapping With Wu-Tang Clan's GZA Legendary hip-hop artist raps about science in his new album and brings that message to schools. Upload your own science rap for a chance to win a shout-out from GZA. Details are below. NEW YORK -- In his… Continue reading
Mar 27 For Graffiti Artist, Monopoly Money Makes the World Go 'Round By Ellen Rolfes Alec Monopoly's first solo show, "Park Place," opened at the LAB ART Gallery in Los Angeles earlier this month. The graffiti artist, who is known only by his pseudonym, and the team at LAB ART transformed the gallery space, inside… Continue reading
Mar 27 In Second Day on Gay Marriage, Supreme Court Takes Up DOMA By Katelyn Polantz Kris and Lyssa White, a married couple from Manassas, Va., kiss Tuesday in front of the Supreme Court protesting for marriage equality. Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images. For a second day, the topic's the same. The… Continue reading
Mar 27 Monopoly Money Makes Artist's World Go 'Round By Ellen Rolfes Painter and graffiti artist Alec Monopoly is obsessed with Rich "Uncle" Pennybags, the mascot of the board game Monopoly. For Alec, this character is a reminder that money can both be the source of fortune and demise -- in the… Continue reading
Mar 27 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company performs a scene from "D-Man in the Waters" during a dress rehearsal before opening night Tuesday at the Joyce Theater in New York City. Continue reading
Mar 26 Watch Women on a Top-Secret Mission in 'Atomic City' For the women whose lives are documented in the new book "The Girls of Atomic City," a top-secret mission during World War II gave them a chance to make history at a time when there were few career options. Ray… Continue watching