[VIRTUAL] Bearing Witness: Collecting Oral Histories in the Rust Belt
[VIRTUAL] By Us and For Us: Writing Your Own Rust Belt Story
[VIRTUAL] Documenting Home: Centering Community Narratives Through Photography
[VIRTUAL] Misinformation and the Election in Michigan: A #WhatToExpect2020 Town Hall
[VIRTUAL] Misinformation and the Election in Pennsylvania: A #WhatToExpect2020 Town Hall
[VIRTUAL] Misinformation and the Election in Arizona: A #WhatToExpect2020 Town Hall
[VIRTUAL] As the South Votes: A #WhatToExpect2020 Town Hall
[WEBINAR] Elections & Emotions: Voter Trust in Georgia & the South
[VIRTUAL] Disinformation and Black Voters in North Carolina: A #WhatToExpect2020 Town Hall
[WEBINAR] Trust in the Rust Belt: Exploring Objectivity and Local Reporting in 2020
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🧵 Students retain their #FirstAmendment rights in schools. In Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District... the U.S. Supreme Court held that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”
Author @haleshannon spoke about how books help teach children empathy at a #LetUtahRead event on January 25.
But this also happened. 🧵
In conversation with PEN America's @Heredia_Alej for this week’s #PENTen, @fannychoir explains why traditional ideas of dystopia can be dangerous.
Her poetry collection The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (@eccobooks) is out now. https://pen.org/the-pen-ten-an-interview-with-franny-choi/ #poetry #books