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Civil Conversation Protects Our Civil Rights

Teaching American History

Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan. You have students from economically advantaged and disadvantaged families. They encourage students to listen to other citizens’ perspectives. It’s a microcosm of the larger society.

Civics 52
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Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict

Sapiens

In his poem “At the Intersection of Sarinah Plaza, Thamrin Street” about the 2016 bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia, by Islamist militants, we’re at the intersection where “suddenly grief falls heavier/than laughter.” The long arc of neocolonialism and economic and environmental exploitation hang like the “ fetid air.”