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Daily News Lesson June 20 2025

Afghan girl accepted to U.S. colleges faces uncertain future after Trump's travel ban

Learn about how Trump's travel ban could potentially affect many people, including one Afghan girl who is striving to pursue her education after being accepted into multiple U.S. colleges

Daily News Lesson September 13 2024

Women in Afghanistan describe Taliban's brutal repression, 3 years after U.S. withdrawal

Learn about life for women under the Taliban following U.S. pulling its military out of the country

Daily News Lesson February 04 2022

Afghan women demand the right to go to school and work

Understand what some women in Afghanistan are doing to push for basic rights

Afghan refugees stay at Joint Base McGuire-Dix- Lakehurst in New Jersey

Daily News Lesson January 03 2022

Many Afghan refugees, including unaccompanied minors, remain in legal limbo in the U.S.

Learn why many Afghan refugees are struggling to find placement in the U.S.

Afghan refugees are processed inside Hangar 5 at Ramstein Air Base in Germany

Daily News Lesson November 17 2021

How Maine is welcoming Afghan refugees

Explore how state and local communities welcome refugees

Daily News Lesson October 21 2021

How this young Afghan refugee uses poetry to ’empty’ her pain and feel hope

Hear from one young refugee on how poetry and art have helped her process trauma

Daily News Lesson October 04 2021

How Seattle’s Vietnamese community is helping Afghan refugees

Hear how one community built from refugees fleeing war in the 70s is supporting refugees from the Afghan War

9/11 Memorial & Museum ahead of 20th anniversary of attacks in New York

Daily News Lesson September 09 2021

How 9/11 weighs on the generation born after the 2001 attacks

Discuss the impact of 9/11 on a generation of students born after the day itself

Daily News Lesson August 31 2021

America's longest war is over

In this PBS lesson plan, learn about the withdrawal of U.S. troops after 20 years in Afghanistan

People wait outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul

Daily News Lesson August 23 2021

Chaos outside Kabul airport as U.S. seeks to evacuate thousands

Hear from U.S. authorities and Afghan citizens on a chaotic evacuation following Taliban takeover of Kabul

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