1862: President Abraham Lincoln reading the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all those enslaved in rebel-held territory would be "thenceforward, and forever, free." Credit - MPI/Getty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tribal Flag Plaza is pictured Oct. 31 north of the state Capitol in Oklahoma City. Many people understand taking pride in being an ...

ISTE+ASCD’s new Digital Citizenship Lessons resource is intended to help students build healthy digital citizenship know-how. Each of the five digital citizenship competencies is explored through ...

I heard a strange speech the other day. Unexpected, because it was remarkably different from almost all of the political nonsense I’ve heard for the last few years. Let me tell you a local story: A ...

Kayitani Ndutiye contemplates his answers to practice questions on the U.S. citizenry test during a session at the Overcomers Support Services on March 9. Credit: Geoff ForesterMonitor staff The City ...

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SINGER-SONGWRITER Gary Granada has been pursuing advocacy with the youth in mind. He and his team at Societrix call it citizenship education — a rights-based theory of change in a society ...