For the past week, more than a thousand students have walked out of their classes at several schools in Colorado's Jefferson County, protesting proposed changes to curriculum in U.S. History classes.

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California Community Colleges Face Dilemmas Amid Tighter Budgets…

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Yang Jianli, a student activist at the Tiananmen Square anti-government protests in 1989, now lives in the United States and continues to advocate for human rights 20 years later.

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Leading up to the crackdown in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, Wang Dan was one of the most high-profile student activists, spearheading efforts to try to bring democratic change to China's regime.

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In the weeks leading up to the military crackdown in Tiananmen in 1989, Chinese Premier Li Peng came to represent the conservative wing of the Communist Party leadership, speaking for those who favored the harshest response to student demonstrators.

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On May 19, 1989, Chinese Communist Party Secretary General Zhao Ziyang picked up a bullhorn and urged student demonstrators to end their hunger strike against the Chinese government in the name of peace and national stability.

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While Deng Xiaoping held many positions within the Communist Party and was never head of government or state, but did serve as the de facto party leader and leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to the early…

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A newly appointed Pakistani Supreme Court quashed several legal challenges to President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's re-election Monday. Margaret Warner reports from Lahore, Pakistan, on how the conflict between activists and Musharraf's military government has impacted the country's civil society and…

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