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I am ready to stand up. I’m ready to speak out.

It has been 3 months, since my school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, came face to face with the devastating reality of gun violence.  Nestled in the corner of my Algebra II class on the second floor of the Freshman Building, I can still her the screams of the students and teachers from the floors above and below. […]

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Museum that memorializes Black lynching victims opens in Montgomery, Alabama

The museum is a memorial to the 4,400 African Americans murdered in terrorist lynching’s, which included beatings, drownings and being burned at the stake by whites between 1877 and 1950 in 12 Southern States including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Their names are engraved on duplicate sets of columns, two for each county where a lynching was documented. […]