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Daily Video November 25 2015

Chicago police officer charged with first-degree murder of black teenager
A seventeen-year-old black teenager was shot 16 times by a white police officer in October of last year for allegedly puncturing a police car’s tire with a folding knife.
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Student Voices November 25 2015

White House highlights West Virginia SRL report on drug abuse
West Virginia is fighting a war against drug abuse. We all know users, recovering addicts and their families and we all see the everyday struggles and hardships of addiction and losing family and loved ones.
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Daily Video November 24 2015

Storytelling helps young English learners grow
Young children from families newly arrived in the United States often do not speak English at home, making it harder for them to learn.
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Daily Video November 23 2015

‘Hamilton’ the musical tells the immigrant story of a Founding Father
A popular new hip-hop show on Broadway, "Hamilton," chronicles one of the nation’s founding fathers and his “rags to riches” story.
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Post November 23 2015

Class Activity — The Great Thanksgiving Listen
  By Adelyn Baxter "Back when I was a kid..." Some of you may recall hearing o…
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Daily Video November 20 2015

Providing support and education for refugee children in the U.S.
DOWNLOAD VIDEO In the United States, where hundreds of thousands of people arrive each year…
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Daily Video November 19 2015

Paris attacks raise security concerns throughout Europe
Politicians across Europe began voicing renewed concern for the ongoing refugee crisis that has brought hundreds of thousands of Syrians to Europe in search of safety.
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Daily Video November 18 2015

Some governors want to refuse Syrian refugees
In the wake of Friday’s terror attacks in Paris, more than half of governors in the United States, mostly Republicans, say they oppose a plan to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country by next fall.
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Daily Video November 17 2015

How does unintentional bias impact people of color?
Sometimes, casual comments we don’t think about can be just as damaging as obvious racial slurs. Columbia University Teachers College Professor Derald Sue studies these instances, called microaggressions, and their often hidden meanings.
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Daily Video November 16 2015

France searches for answers to Paris attacks
The city of Paris is trying to come to terms with a series of violent attacks on a scale France has not seen since World War II.
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