Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
29 June 2021
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In 1965 a traveling salesman published a series of travel guides with gay or gay-friendly businesses across the U.S. that became survival guides for the LGBTQ community. “Mapping the Gay Guides” has digitized those co...
31 May 2021
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
To mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, in which a white mob killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed the thriving neighborhood of Greenwood, the Centennial Commission supported a number of i...
27 April 2021
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In the 1950s, the National Institute for Infantile Paralysis launched a nationwide public health campaign to encourage teenagers to receive the polio vaccine. Tactics included interviewing and recruiting teenagers to ...
12 April 2021
South Africa
Text
800-1500 Words
WikiAfrica Education increases information about Africa’s diverse languages, cultures, and politics from the voices and perspectives of African people. AfroCuration events enlist the help of young people to create and...
7 April 2021
Sierra Leone
Text
Over 3000 Words
When the rise of Ebola in West Africa strict protocols when handling those who were dying or had died from the disease, public health officials began working with anthropologists and other social scientists to increas...
7 April 2021
Oklahoma, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
It took almost 100 years to expand education curriculum in Oklahoma to make significantly expand teaching about the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Although the social studies standards in Oklahoma are updated every six ...
8 March 2021
Nebraska, United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
Students and educators in Nebraska are driving the change to change history curriculum to reflect history that places more emphasis on the narratives on indigenous and marginalized peoples. Students are emphasizing of...
9 February 2021
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
The Fayette County Traveling Museum collects, preserves, and shares Uniontown’s Black history. The owners sift through archives, libraries, and donated boxes of materials, which are displayed as educational resources....
5 February 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The eradication of smallpox offers lessons and insight for health officials and governments focused on containing the novel coronavirus and avoiding future pandemics. Although COVID-19 presents unique challenges – suc...
4 February 2021
Youngstown, Ohio, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Mahoning Valley Historical Society reached a broader local audience "by asking tough questions and reshaping itself for the 21st century," bucking the traditional historical-society model of focusing only on white...
Next City
Lyndsay Knecht
27 January 2021
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
When the Public Iconographies project asked people in St. Louis "how would you map the monuments of St. Louis?", it got 750 hand-drawn maps telling stories of often-overlooked sites throughout the city. By letting peo...
21 January 2021
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Although many mutual aid networks have formed to serve a need during the coronavirus pandemic, the concept has been in practice for centuries and has "deep roots in communities of color." While these grassroots commun...
15 January 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In an effort to combat racial injustice, former plantations are shifting the narrative typically given on tours to focus on the lives of the enslaved who once lived there instead of enslavers who owned the plantations...
12 January 2021
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
In an effort to help get accurate information to the communities who are being disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, a program called Live Chair Health has started to train barbers "on chronic issue...
4 January 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The San Francisco Bay Area has had fewer COVID-19 deaths than would be expected for such a densely populated area, largely by "drawing on resources and expertise that predated the coronavirus pandemic." Unlike other l...
18 December 2020
New York, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
When a smallpox outbreak was deemed to be a likelihood in New York City in 1947, the city’s health commissioner rapidly launched a vaccination campaign that leveraged internal collaboration, consistent and transparent...
2 December 2020
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Richmond’s Robert E. Lee statue has become an example of American protest art as protesters have covered it in graffiti demanding racial justice and surrounded it with basketball hoops, gardens, tents, lawn chairs, an...
23 October 2020
Dirty Box Junction, Sierra Leone
Text
1500-3000 Words
When news of COVID-19 arrived in the West African Village of Dirty Box Junction, community members and local government were ready to act due to lessons learned from mistakes made during the Ebola outbreak of years ea...
21 October 2020
United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Nationally, civic courses lack rigor, partly because few states require coursework in civics. A new video game called “Portrait of a Tyrant,” based on the Declaration of Independence, could change that. “Let’s gamify ...
21 October 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Broadcast TV Programs
5-15 Minutes
In the 1960s, a psychologist and a team of researchers in San Francisco began sending “caring letters" as a means of suicide intervention, but the practice didn't continue outside of the research study, despite showin...
The Laconia Daily Sun
Roberta Baker
2 October 2020
New Hampshire, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
This article explores a myriad of ways on how to change anti-Semitic stereotypes and beliefs about Jewish people. Anti-bias training,integratingg holocaust education into the classroom, and holding difficult conversat...
22 September 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Chicago students organized and, for the first time, convinced the city to rename a park in honor of Frederick and Anna Murray Douglass. The former Douglas Park was named after a Civil War era Illinois senator who advo...
21 September 2020
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Teachers across Massachusetts are finding ways to incorporate antiracist practices into their curriculum. An English teacher at Newton High School is replacing required reading materials produced by white male authors...
11 September 2020
United States
Multi-Media
Under 800 Words
Students taking AP U.S. History at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, may have been limited in their ability to attend in-person classes, but their teacher decided to supplement their lessons by taking on a 15-day...
2 September 2020
Warsaw, Poland
Text
1500-3000 Words
In the 1940s, typhus spread throughout the community living within the Warsaw ghetto, but cases dramatically decreased in the winter of 1941. While some researchers remain unsure why, others point towards a change in ...
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