United We Stand
You've heard it a thousand times before, I'm sure: "United we stand, divided we fall." And since this week is National Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week (NYACAW), those words keep ringing in my ears....
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The United Nations Goes Grassroots For the MY World Global Tour
I've always believed that whatever we fall in love with as children never really leaves us, but that it merely gets buried by distractions and obstacles we create when we become adults. That being...
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My Return to Rwanda and the Forgotten Crisis Next Door
I went back to Rwanda last month for the first time in almost 20 years. I was head of mission for Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) during and after the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The...
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Syria: 'Never Again' Is Now
Twenty years ago this week the Rwandan genocide began. Since then we've filled museums with haunting relics, held memorials remembering the hundreds of thousands of victims senselessly slaughtered,...
View Article'Skinny' Spoken Word Poem Exposes A Dark Truth About Body Image
Even those of us that love -- or at least accept -- our bodies tend to wish we were a little skinnier or toned or smooth or flat. YouTube user Dodie Clark perfectly articulates the tension that exists...
View ArticleThis Is What Diversity Is All About
Five swimmers from the University of Virginia wanted to champion diversity at their college -- and they nailed it with one simple message: "2 of us are gay. The other 3 don't care."...
View ArticleAfter Serving 30 Years For A Crime He Didn't Commit, Glenn Ford's Wish List...
It’s been nearly a month since Glenn Ford was released from jail after serving three decades for a crime he didn’t commit. And he’s wasted no time collecting the items and experiences he missed out on...
View ArticleA New Voice in Our City: How Memphis Students Are Becoming Partners in...
As local school districts seek to produce better outcomes for students, at least one district is thinking about students not merely as those on the receiving end of reform, but as allies in bringing it...
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The Choice
On April 15, 2013 I made a choice to run towards. That choice has affected my life profoundly ever since. I wasn't supposed to run that day. Three weeks before the Boston marathon, I ruptured a tendon,...
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Day 2 Recap: Keeping Youth and Human Rights in Focus
Suzanne is blogging live from New York, where she is serving on the U.S. delegation for the 47th Commission on Population and Development. As the 47th session of the Commission on Population and...
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Afghanistan War Veteran Adopts Military Dog She Credits With Saving Her Life
Two Afghanistan War veterans have been reunited off the battlefield. Angie McDonnell served in Afghanistan's Helmand province with a very special comrade. Vidar, a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois, served...
View ArticleWhy it Is Difficult to Choose a Charity
A few years ago, the following story was highlighted on St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's website as an inspiring testament to the hospital's work: Sabrina developed bruises on her arms and legs...
View ArticleLocked Up In Hell
Africa (the continent, not the country) has an Alcatraz, and it's the Central African Republic (CAR). "This is hell within hell," one man states as he flees his home. The war, which conservatively, has...
View ArticleA Transgender Teacher in Hawai'i Inspires a Global Campaign
At a time when transgender and gender-nonconforming people the world over face harassment, violence, discrimination and even murder, we are excited to be launching a new film-based campaign from...
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A Place Where Every Young Person Has a Chance to Be a Leader
Celena Green, photo courtesy of Julie Hassett-Sutton/Frantic Studio via Global Kids I went to a very intensive academic high school in Queens, N.Y. in the early 1990s, one where you focused on an...
View ArticleFor Many Girls, the Key to Education is Sanitary Napkins
For most adolescents in the United States, menstruation is a nuisance. It is an inconvenience replete with limitless possibilities for embarrassment: "Did anyone see me slip a tampon in my pocket?" "Is...
View ArticleTaking a Community Approach to Campus Sexual Assault Prevention
Ending sexual assault is not a "women's issue," and until we change our thinking to include everyone in the effort, we won't begin to see a significant decline in this form of violence. This move...
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School Stabbing Hero Gracey Evans: 'He Saved My Life, So I Saved His'
Pennsylvania teen Gracey Evans was walking down the hallway with her best friend at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pa., on Wednesday morning when she saw blood. It was the beginning of a...
View ArticleBritish Teacher Gives Incredible Gift To Sick 13-Year-Old Student
A British teacher has saved the life of one of his students by donating his kidney to the sick teenager. Ray Coe, 53, is a special needs coordinator at the Royal Docks Community School in London. When...
View ArticleBankrupting a Nation -- Not the Best Way to Achieve Health Care
This week, as the spring meetings are hosted by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., recent negligent and unaligned behavior from the World Bank's private lending arm,...
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