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This Teacher Came Up With A Lesson Plan For Combating Hate

“Teenagers have a tendency to lash out at each other if they have a difference of opinion.” by Nicole Slaughter-Graham

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Why I’m Not Interested In A ‘Will & Grace’ Who Never Grew Up

Don’t get me wrong — I love comfort TV. But this time, I don’t want to settle for a warm bath of nostalgia. by Eric Sasson

A New Film Explores How School Segregation Still Haunts America It’s been over 60 years since Brown v. Board of Education, and our schools are still separate and unequal A new film distributed by Ava DuVernay reveals that too many U.S. schools remain separate and unequal.

Education

Britni Danielle
There’s An Easy Solution To Curbing Hate Online, And It Has To Do With Porn A sex educator wants to know why harassment is harder to suppress than sex We figured out how to censor sex across the internet. Why can’t we do the same with intolerance?

Lifestyle

Kate Ryan
Move Over, Wonder Woman — This Afro-Puerto Rican Superhero Is The Ultimate Feminist Icon Named after the island nation’s anthem, the fierce comic book star uses her powers to control the weather and keep her people safe “She is my hero and represents the power we have as a people.”

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Rebekah Sager

Why My Kids And I Became Radical ‘Unschoolers’ Putting kids in charge of their learning can be a great idea. One mom explains why she decided to let her 5-year-old daughter take the lead on her learning — from the comforts of home.

Education

Sarah Bregel
How America’s Love Of Cheap, Fatty Chicken Led To ‘Superbugs’ — And Way Too Many Boring Meals Why did we start brining our favorite white meat in antibiotics? Maryn McKenna chased the medical mystery of drug-resistant infections right to the source: industrial chicken farms.

Food

Jill Neimark
Paging Dr. AI Our bodies are made of blood, water, and data. Could machines understand them better than human doctors? Our bodies are made of blood, water, and data. Could machines understand them better than human doctors?

Health

Jordan E. Rosenfeld

Finger Size Does Matter … In Sports New studies suggest the size of two fingers could predict your athletic ability New studies suggest the size of two fingers could predict athletic ability.

Sports

Grant Tomkinson
California Just Showed Us That Hiring Transgender Employees Is Good For The Bottom Line 90% of trans women of color report experiencing harassment, mistreatment, or discrimination on the job Meanwhile, the Department of Justice tries to dismantle LGBTQ protections in the workplace.

Money

Rebekah Sager
My Son Is Attending A ‘Blue Ribbon’ School — And I’m Terrified What do fancy classifications mean for black kids if they don’t have any role models for success? My black son is going to an ultra-competitive, nearly all-white school where “the teachers are hammers and the students are the nails.”

Education

Britni Danielle

Why Texans Dove Into Harvey’s Toxic Floodwaters To Rescue Bats Barehanded To the people who love them, Houston’s 250,000 bats aren’t scary — they’re tiny, bug-eating “dragons” that keep our ecosystem (and economy) afloat To the people who love them, Houston’s bats aren’t scary — they’re bug-eating “dragons” that keep our ecosystem (and economy) afloat.

The Planet

Jed Oelbaum
Syrian Refugee Turned Olympic Swimmer Faces Fears In Return To Budapest ‘I promised myself that I would come back here differently.’ “I promised myself that I would come back here differently.”

Sports

Jolene Latimer
Why This Book About A Proud Muslim Family Is A Must-Read For The 2017 School Year And it has nothing to do with Trump “Dear little one, know you are wondrous, a child of crescent moons, a builder of mosques, a descendant of brilliance.”

Education

Tasbeeh Herwees

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