6 Influential Women’s Rights Activists Everyone Should Know

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Throughout history, women have struggled to gain basic human rights. Here, we honor six of these global leaders from past and present.

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A Must Read for TCKs: Safari as a Way of Life

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A safari is about more than snapping photos of big cats and roaming seemingly untouched land, at least according to Jennifer New and her depiction of one TCK turned activist.

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A Military Brat Makes Peace in Vietnam

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Children are often the forgotten casualties of war, and the line between friends and enemies isn’t always clear. When I was 16, my father died of cancer. Today, it would be presumed to be related to Agent Orange, the deadly […]

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Spider-Man: Your Friendly Neighborhood CCK

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Featuring culturally fluid teenager Miles Morales, this film follows him, as he navigates his new charter school and his newly formed Spidey senses.

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How Journalists Feel About Newsroom Diversity

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When you think of the appearance of a newspaper editor, what type of person comes to mind? This is the question Lauren Gustus, former executive editor at the Coloradoan, once asked a room full of potential future journalists during a 2016 panel on diversity in media. The answer most gave? They pictured an older, white male — and they’d be correct. As of November 2018, 77 percent of newsroom employees were white.

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Billy Porter Pushes for Representation at 71st Emmy Awards

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The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards, which aired in September of 2019, awarded many fresh faces in Hollywood for their powerful acting, directing, writing and other achievements in television — but the question of diversity and cultural representation remained.

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How to Explore “The Mile-High City” & its Culture

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Denver is near the mountains, not in them. The Mile High City is located on high rolling plains, 12 miles east of the foothills — a series of gentle mountains that climb to 11,000 feet. Just beyond is the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, picturesque snowcapped peaks that rise to 14,000 feet (fourteeners as described by locals). Denver might not be in the mountains, but the mountains still dominate the city.

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United Kingdom Diversity Standards Emerge in Contrast to Hollywood’s Emmys

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Emmys struggle with cultural diversity while the new BFI Diversity Standards help under-represented groups in the United Kingdom film industry.

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