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Peace First Duets: Arne Duncan and Mary-Pat Hector discuss gun violence in Chicago

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A Successful Peace March at 186th Street School: Wise Owls Shout, “Happy Birthday Dr. King… Let Peace Soar!”

Bullying

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My Story as a Peacemaker: Jasmine Babers

Bullying

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Peace First Fellow Alexis on the Good Starts Young Rally

Education

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Gender as the Next Frontier

Bullying

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Running for Office: A Young Person's Experience

Education

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Peace First Presents Duets: Brennan Lewis and Kevin Jennings

Bullying

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Yasmine at the UN

Education

Equality

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NYC, First to ban discrimination based on hair

Justice is blind

Washington state eliminates the death penalty

Laquan McDonald murdered by police

Chicago police officer convicted of murder for shooting of young black teen

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Judge rules to keep TPS for legal immigrants

PHOTO CREDIT: Hassan Amar / AP

Refugees capped at all-time low

Botham Jean is seen Feb. 27, 2014. PHOTO CREDIT: Jeff Montgomery/Harding University/AP

Unarmed black man killed by police in his own apartment in Dallas

Photo: Albert Cesare/The Enquirer

Highest levels ever of migrant children in custody

Protest in Charlottesville. PHOTO CREDIT: Ryan M. Kelley / The Daily Progress via AP

Anniversary of the Charlottesville protests

Civic Engagement

Hollywood sign

Hollywood fails to be inclusive

Personal account of helping to reunite migrant families

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Voting restrictions in America

Civic Engagement

PHOTO CREDIT: Ruben R. Ramirez/The El Paso Times via AP

Progress in Reuniting Migrant Families

AP Photo/John Bazemore

NFL players challenge the league's new policy concerning the national anthem

Civic Engagement

LOS ANGELES: Immigrants rights demonstrators gather outside the ICE detention facility. Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times

Families Belong Together

Photo by Justin Merriman/Getty Images via PBS

Justice for Antwon Rose, a black teenager shot and killed by the police

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“It’s important that we make our voices heard."

Civic Engagement

Murals plastered on the walls of a Walmart-turned-shelter for almost 1,500 undocumented children via US Government and ABC News

Zero Tolerance Immigration Policy separates children from their families

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Immigration in the US: Finding Solutions Through Support

Civic Engagement