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A Microfinance Group at a meeting in Hyderabad Slum in Andhra Pradesh, India ( Women members of Microfinance Group )
Student Voices August 17 2015

Travel to India builds solidarity between women
While looking through a photo album of my host mother’s wedding day, I learned that she was 17-years-old the day she was arranged to marry a 30-year-old man from another village whom she did not know.
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Post August 10 2015

Teaching Ferguson in the classroom
It's been one year since the encounter with a white police officer that resulted in the death of bl…
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Post August 06 2015

Five things your class should know on the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing
World War II, Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right), August 1945, …
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Daily Video July 31 2015

States scramble to fix dangerous roads and bridges
Many of the country’s roads and bridges are dangerously in need of repair, but it’s not clear how that will happen.
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Daily Video July 30 2015

Discovery of Catholic artifact raises questions at Jamestown settlement
A discovery at the first permanent English settlement in the Americas has raised new questions about the religious influences that played a role in the founding of America.
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Daily Video July 29 2015

70 years after nuclear tests, New Mexico town fights for compensation
The first test of a nuclear bomb took place 70 years ago this month in the desert of southern New Mexico, where some say the effects are still being felt.
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Daily Video July 28 2015

Fallen WWII soldiers teach students about sacrifice
In the more than 70 years since allied soldiers stormed the beach at Normandy, firsthand accounts of the lives lost that day are slipping away.
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Daily Video July 27 2015

Mediterranean fishermen unlikely heroes for war refugees
In the Mediterranean Sea, fishermen are caught in the midst of the growing crisis involving stranded migrants desperately trying to reach the shores of Europe.
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Student Voices July 27 2015

Chicago to India: Finding hope in Delhi's slums
Chicago and the slums of India are similar. As you walk through each community, you see despair in both. But in India, I saw something I would have never thought was possible — I saw unity in poverty.
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Post July 24 2015

Eight female authors your class should know for the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s 'Emma'
  By Gabby Shacknai Jane Austen is known throughout the world as one of the mo…
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